(May 11, 2014 at 8:47 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote:(May 11, 2014 at 5:24 am)max-greece Wrote: I have a theory, based entirely on thin air at the moment, that a species facing environmental change and therefore under stress may prove to be more likely to experience mutation that one that is happily settled in its niche in its environment.
This might explain why some groups have experienced little dramatic change over hundreds of millions of years (crocodilians for example) whilst others (e.g. Whales) have undergone mind-blowing adaptation.
Dude, that's stabilizing selection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizing_selection
On the one hand - cool, on the other I am saying a bit more than this - that the rate of mutation is linked to species stress (with no proof of that).
If someone else has had this theory before me - well - it wouldn't be the first time.
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