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From: rlh@cvl.UUCP (Ralph L. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: RE:Innocent Question
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 10:01:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 10:01:37 1985
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> This is an innocent question, not intended to be an attack.
> So give me an answer, not a defence.

OK

> I was just wonderin'...  If evolution happened in abrupt changes,
> wouldn't two animals have to undergo the same (or a similar) change?

When people say "abrupt" they don't usually mean THAT abrupt.  Any
process that takes less than 10,000 years appears instantainious in the
fosil record. No one is talking about new species apearing in one
generation. (Some people have proposed mechanisms that could operate in
as few as hundereds of generations however.)

				Ralph Hartley
				rlh@cvl