This One\'s for David (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, January 23, 2010, 16:42 (5419 days ago) @ David Turell

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/aaft-sdm011510.php
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> > You like to point out that we borrow from nature all the time, here's one that is a textbook case.
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> Thanks for the push. I'd seen the headline but hadn't pursued it. It is interesting how clever DNA can be. I still wonder where all the intelligent info behind the code came from. Here's another interesting entry: how artifical selection pushed dogs beyond what natural selection would allow:
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120093525.htm-This should be a fun discussion!-The way I see it, natural selection would only allow changes if there was some need to change, ie, change in food, climate, etc. -Humans in domestic dogs provide the change in that we're actively selecting for some kind of trait. What the story confirms to me, is that wolves are extremely well adapted; they don't need to change, so they don't. Domesticated dogs have an artificial need to change. -Or said another way, you might say that natural selection is too passive, but it is a fitting explanation to why the possible variation displayed by dogs didn't happen in wolves.

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