[Dataman]

Mosquitos have evolved to resist pesticide

Careful not to confuse adapted with evolve. I have no problem with adaptation. The mosquito is still a mosquito though. That's not evolution.

[ALS]

To: Quick1

Mosquitos have evolved to resist pesticide

Careful not to confuse adapted with evolve. I have no problem with adaptation. The mosquito is still a mosquito though. That's not evolution.

Amen

[Quick1]

Ah, but it is. Some mosquito evolved with a mutation that somehow allowed it to resist pesticide. It then reproduced and spread its genes to the next generation of mosquitos. Now we have a bunch of those mosquitos that all have the mutation, and they live easier than mosquitos without the mutation, so they propagate more.

If that's not a classic definition of evolution, then what is?