Natural Selection and what it didn\'t do for dogs... (Evolution)

by dhw, Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 10:07 (5225 days ago) @ xeno6696

Matt has replied to BBella, who can't imagine how two wolves can produce a poodle: "Might be a thousand years apart, but they're definitely anecdotally and genetically related."-I don't think BBella was questioning that, though she will correct me if I'm wrong. Perhaps the chimps and humans offer us a better example. Like you, I accept the theory that all forms descended from a few, and that humans have monkey-like ancestors. But like BBella I find it hard to imagine how the process took place in real life, bearing in mind that it takes two likes to produce a like, and so if there is a not-alike it will require another not-alike to continue the line of not-alikes. This is what I have tried to illustrate in my little story for BBella. I don't think it's "nonsense", although I'm aware that a possible explanation may lie in epigenesis.