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To: Truthsearcher
If by evolution you mean speciation, still no - there is no “first” member of a new species born intact and distinct from the parent population.

Defining when a population has diverged enough to be called a separate species is not a dividing line but a continuum.

A swamp dries up and becomes a forest over a hundred years. It was obviously a swamp one hundred years ago, and it is obviously a forest now. At what point did the swamp become a forest? Was there a particular second when it happened? One location that was obviously forest first?

116 posted on 11/30/2011 1:52:39 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

We aren’t talking about a forest or arbitrary categories, we are talking genetics. Surely there was a time there was no such thing as a genetic human, and then there was, and according to evolution this happens because of mutation and natural selection.

So when and to whom did this mutation happen to?


118 posted on 11/30/2011 2:01:58 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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