What are your favorite examples of evolution in progress?

[vorlon13]

There's a pint of sour cream in my fridge that I think is close to achieving sentience.

https://garfield.com/index.php/comic/1987/07/19

[ignoramus]

Me! part hairy ape, part futuristic alien.

(what a silly concept)
Everything that survives its surroundings today is a perfect specimen of evolution.
The rest is just theistic mind fucking.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Chihuahuas and Great Pyrenees dog can't interbreed anymore. It would be like crossing a smart car with a Kenworth tractor. The dogs are on their way to being separate species.

[Minimalist]

[brewer]

Oh, sure, I mention resistant TB and get nothing. Then the rest of your pile on and get kudos left and right.

Y'all have evolved into dicks. IN TWO PAGES!

[shadow]

(what a silly concept)
Everything that survives its surroundings today is a perfect specimen of evolution.
The rest is just theistic mind fucking.

I wouldn't say anything is perfectly evolved, though; when there's a change in conditions it can take quite a while for organisms to adapt. So it's not about being a 'perfect specimen of evolution' (because you're right that we have a few million of those), it's about watching it happen. At least, that's the glimpse into the process that I find really interesting 

[vorlon13]

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I don't have a lick of trouble letting creationists die under those circumstances.

Not a particle.

Creationists have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.


Let them DIE.

[shadow]

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I don't have a lick of trouble letting creationists die under those circumstances.

Not a particle.

Creationists have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.


Let them DIE.

We act like this is a joke, but highly religious people sometimes commit suicide like this by not taking medications because god's going to save them. It's when they don't get treatment for their sick children for this reason that it becomes tragic.

[vorlon13]

I like the way that the tip of my index finger has evolved to fit perfectly into my nostril, my ear, and my bum hole.  Nature works in mysterious ways, her wonders to perform. 

Boru

Guess what else might be a perfect fit in your bum hole . . . .

[vorlon13]

I don't have a lick of trouble letting creationists die under those circumstances.

Not a particle.

Creationists have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.


Let them DIE.

We act like this is a joke, but highly religious people sometimes commit suicide like this by not taking medications because god's going to save them. It's when they don't get treatment for their sick children for this reason that it becomes tragic.

I could see taking it to the next level (in regards to religious adults) in a more assertive form of the First Amendment guaranty of religion in that it be interpreted so as to deny treatment for their illnesses as a result of evolved pathogens unless and until they repudiate that belief.

If not, the attending physician is sullying their beliefs, whether or not the patient is consenting to it regardless.

Wish I had the cajones to extend that to their kids, but Idunno . . .