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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Of Historical Interest
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 16:14:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 16:14:06 1985
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This question was asked long ago.

> [Andrew Koenig]
> I have seen this question before on this newsgroup,
> but no answer, so here goes again:
> 
> If there was a world-wide flood, which survived:
> salt-water fish or fresh-water fish?

I don't know what the scientific accuracy of the following is, but
it might be of interest to some.

"[S]alt-water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to live in
fresh water; and, according to Valenciennes, there is hardly a single
group of fishes confined exclusively to fresh water, so that we may
imagine that a marine member of a fresh-water group might travel far
along the shores of the sea, and subsequently become modified and
adapted to the fresh waters of a distant land."

Charles Darwin, _On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for
Life_ (A Facsimile of the First Edition).  Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, Mass, 1964, 384-385.

One question, of course, is what exactly does "slowly" mean?
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