(May 24, 2014 at 1:07 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(May 23, 2014 at 7:57 pm)Chas Wrote: RDK: No, you have no evidence for that.
DBP: What is 'evolutionary pressure'? There are no pressures that 'help' a creature - that's not how evolution works.
Pressures may have been a poor choice, but basically its what helps passes on its genes successfully to out perform rival genes for what ever reason.
I was thinking of things like a bird having a slightly longer beak that can get to more intractable worms and so be a more successful feeder, which could make all the difference come a famine.
That kind of thing.
Ok, good. Carry on.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.