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To: BroJoeK
For "natural selection" simply note that in nature offspring born with defects often don't survive, while those born with something special more often survive and reproduce.

Something special such as...?

210 posted on 06/14/2012 4:52:35 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: papertyger
papertyger: "Something special such as...?"

Anything you might imagine -- bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, better eyes, ears, nose, teeth, camouflage or endurance, more hot, cold, wet or dry weather adaptations, etc., etc.

Indeed, when humans first began to develop new breeds of domestic animals and plants -- thousands of years ago -- the only thing they did was replace evolution's "natural selection" with "human selection".
The results illustrate the whole idea of evolution's "punctuated equilibrium", meaning species can remain apparently unchanged for millions of years, and then "suddenly" evolve into something quite different looking.

Of course, a few thousand years is not enough for mutations to create a new "species boundary" (as annalex calls it) between breeds.
But human animal husbandry shows us how quickly species can change under the right conditions.

214 posted on 06/14/2012 12:03:02 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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