(October 29, 2015 at 11:52 am)jenny1972 Wrote:(October 29, 2015 at 11:29 am)Esquilax Wrote: Well, A: because they didn't all live under the same conditions, since there's a huge amount of environmental variance on the earth, and B: unguided mutations are the mechanism behind evolution, and no two beings will ever mutate exactly the same way. It's the sort of question that's really simple to answer if you had any interest in the subject beyond disagreeing with it out of hand.
so your suggesting that humans evolved into humans and plants evolved into plants because of climate differences in different locations .... bugs are different than other species of bugs all because they have intensely different environmental factors ?
Yes. And random mutation in non-genetically-sharing populations results in different directions of potential evolution, narrowed back down by the Natural Selection pressures in their different environments.
The fact that the species "work together" (though I'd say that bees getting their colony destroyed by wasps would differ in this opinion) is a result of Natural Selection working on all of the populations put together to form part of that environment; environment is geography + ecology.
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