(September 15, 2016 at 6:53 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(September 14, 2016 at 11:53 pm)Rhythm Wrote: There's some other kind of evolution...that's -not- "change over time, combined with selection"?
"Punctuated equilibrium"? I think that is just a change that is more obvious than most. Instead of a mutation that allows 0.1% more efficient use of the available food supply we get bright pink instead of white in zebras. That's not really a massive change, it might have been a single mutation or two mutations. And yes, it could have been a major change, but it doesn't have to be.
Punctuated equilibrium is often associated with a massive natural disaster. Large/wholesale change of environment has a precipitous effect on genomes.
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