Re: Rapid Lizard Evolution

On Sat, 3 May 2008 16:25:32 +0100, "tony h" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Budikka666 wrote:
>> Grrl Scientist at www.scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist
>> http://tinyurl.com/5la6lh
>> re****ts on: "five male and five female Italian wall lizards, Podarcis
>> sicula, were translocated from the islet of Pod Kopiste to the nearby
>> islet of Pod Mrcaru, both of which belong to Croatia and are located
>> in the southern Adriatic Sea"
>>
>> War erupted and scientists never got back to see the lizards until
>> relatively recently.  What they found was an amazing example of just
>> how fast evolution can work its wiley ways.
>>
>> Footnote to idiot creationists: Yeah, they're still lizards, and no,
>> no scientist has ever claimed they're not.  But what you're too stupid
>> to grasp no matter how many times you're hit over your stupid heads
>> with it, evolution isn't just about speciation (which leads to
>> everything else) and nothing more.  Evolution is about change within a
>> gene pool.  That's what it's rooted in and that's how it works its
>> magic.
>>
>> It really is that simple.  And if you cannot grasp this basic,
>> demonstrated fact, then you too are really simple.
>
>sorry, that doesn't do it for me (though i believe in evolution).
>The lizards had the same DNA as the originals, though I accept 'dna 
>switching' could/does account for the changes, both internal and
external, 
>this isn't evidence enough for evolution, a change in a single genome
would 
>have been enough 
>

Evolution is a change in the frequency of the population's alleles that
affect
the phenotype , which is what happened.     They were moved from an insect
rich
to a plant rich environment and evolved features to capitalize on the new
food
source.

Ben