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To: BroJoeK

Back to my original point, I think many people (including some scientists) mistakenly use the word ‘evolution’ when talking about ‘adaptation’.


147 posted on 10/05/2018 9:04:47 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
UCANSEE2: "Back to my original point, I think many people (including some scientists) mistakenly use the word ‘evolution’ when talking about ‘adaptation’. "

I'll repeat: it's all the same processes, call it by whatever name you chose: "adaption", "micro-evolution", "macro-evolution" even "genetic drift", it's all the same things, only the time frames change.

"Adaption" & "micro-evolution" simply refer to relatively short-term changes which might produce new breeds & subspecies, where "macro-evolution" refers to those exact same changes accumulating over longer periods to produce new species, genera, etc.

The processes are the same, only the time periods differ.

152 posted on 10/05/2018 5:25:23 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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