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Evolution: Plants The sixth sense

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2002.02.01 at 21:10:56(8123)
> The explination is that these chance differences are chosen out, not in
> thousands of years but over billions of years. Many, Many trial and error
> scenarios may occur over such a time period.
billions? all you need are thousands of years. the speciation of haplochromine cichlids in lake victoria (from one species to over 300 species) took just a few thousand years. a blink of an eye in biological time.
tsuh yang

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