RE: The code that is DNA
December 20, 2019 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2019 at 4:38 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 20, 2019 at 3:09 pm)Nomad Wrote: John, let me start with the fact that your posts here are without merit, every single one of them. No let me conlude by asking you to stop with the lying by quote mining. As a christian you should be free from sin. And lying constantly, like you do, is a grievous sin.
Referencing is not the same as quoting lol; and in this case I've done neither. I merely illustrated with the titles of two papers that microevolution and macroevolution are real distinctions that evolutionary biologists make. Here's an example of a quote, to illustrate:
"In a population of birds, for example, the average beak size may change from one generation to the next. This is known as microevolution. Second, lineages split and diverge, thereby increasing the number of species. An ancestral species of birds, for instance, may give rise to two distinct descendant species. This is called speciation. Third, over long periods of time, novel forms of life can derive from earlier forms. Tetrapods, for example, arose from a lineage of fish. This kind of dramatic change over time is called macroevolution" (Herron and Freeman, 2014, p. 38).
The distinction between micro and macro evolution lies not in the time it takes, as another user suggested, but at the level in which the change occurs. Speciation functions as a bridge between the two.
Reference: Herron, J. C., Freeman, S. 2014. Evolutionary analysis (5th ed ). Pearson: Boston.
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