(January 28, 2020 at 11:24 am)Simon Moon Wrote:I have seen this simplified into - have you ever seen a pack of wild poodles?(January 27, 2020 at 7:57 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: Again the insults from the juveniles are a badge of honor, feel free to keep them coming
It’s the fact that a Perfect pair of ’s eyes appears on the butterflies wings,
ow many mutations did it take for that to happen? Was it just one eye first then d part of the second eye and then the irises after?
Then the rest of the second eye?
And what about how far they are spaced apart, in perfect proportion. What luck!!!
It only took 10,000 years for humans to utilize artificial selection to get, friendly, easily trainable, 25 pound dachshunds from 120 pound, wild, barely manageable, wolfs. All humans had to do, is start selecting for is, mutations for slightly more social wolfs (those that seemed to interact a bit more with humans), and slightly shorter legs, and breeding them.
Why do you think nature couldn't select for mutations on butterfly wings that slightly looked like the eyes of a more threatening animal, giving them a slight reproductive and survival advantage, thereby selecting them to continue to pass down their genes?
And by the way, those butterflies with 'perfect owl eye' wing patterns are not even 100% effective against being eaten by their predators. A decent percentage still get eaten. The eye patterns just give them a moderate survival advantage, not a complete survival advantage.
What is the biological mechanism that you think exists to prevent this process for butterflies, but allows it for wolfs and dogs?
Having three couch potato Cavalier King Charles Spaniels I have to wonder that there could even be a smidgen of wolf left in them. That is, until I saw them work as a pack to chase, corner and kill a few squirrels last summer. After recovering from that mess I thought - yep, there's a tiny little bit of wolf left in there, if you squint you can see it.
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