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Evolutionary Adaptations Forced by Climate Change

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Charles Johnson8/14/2009 3:23:22 pm PDT

re: #29 SixDegrees

I predict that people will have problems with this example because it sort of vaguely implies that evolutionary change is being forced by climate change - that is, that the climate is somehow having an impact on individuals, which sounds crazy - and is. It’s a good example of somewhat sloppy science writing that’s responsible for so many misunderstandings about evolution and other matters.

I didn’t read it that way at all. The example I quoted is very clear that a decade of adaptation had taken place between the two cultivated groups of seeds.