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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,talk.origins
Subject: Re: The birds and the breaks
Message-ID: <3144@ae.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 17:16:11 GMT
References: <28379@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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In article <28379@apple.Apple.COM> sabol@Apple.COM (Bryan Sabol) writes:

=	I think you're really mincing words here:  selection is
=selection.  Try this:  environmental pressure upon a species will be
=more beneficial towards certain individuals, due to an advantageous
=trait.  For example:  a giraffe with a long neck can eat all the leaves
=that a giraffe with a short neck can eat, plus more leaves out of the
=latter's reach.  This pressure would give this giraffe a better chance
=to survive and rear its young;  therefore adding "long-neckedness" to the
=giraffe's gene pool.  

I've tried that before, and it doesn't go down well.  Please provide us with
the definitive process implied by the word "therefore" in your last
statement.  Thanks.


Rich
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