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I'm wondering how natural selection comes to the phasing out and loss of these body parts?
It's not natural selection working, it's random mutation.
Originally posted by LordBucket
reply to post by Son of Will
It's not natural selection working, it's random mutation.
Mutation is one proposed mechanism, yes, but why are you responding to my post stating that it's not natural selection by telling me that it's not natural selection?
I guess some people really just need to feel smart.
Here..."the sun rises in the east."
Now go ahead and correct me. Tell me that I'm wrong and that the sun rises in the east.
I still don't understand how these parts
would cease to appear in organisms though.
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5.1.1.1 Evening Primrose (Oenothera gigas)
While studying the genetics of the evening primrose, Oenothera lamarckiana, de Vries (1905) found an unusual variant among his plants. O. lamarckiana has a chromosome number of 2N = 14. The variant had a chromosome number of 2N = 28. He found that he was unable to breed this variant with O. lamarckiana. He named this new species O. gigas.