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Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research. Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in this "paradoxical decrease in size". Classic evolutionary theory would predict that wild sheep gradually get bigger, as the stronger, larger animals survive into adulthood and reproduce. Reporting in Science journal, the team says this shows the "subtle interplay" between evolution and the environment. Scientists first began studying Soay sheep, on the island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, in 1985. Since then, the sheep have decreased in size by 5% - their legs getting steadily shorter and their body weight decreasing. This strange phenomenon was first reported in 2007, but the reason for it remained under debate.
perhaps these changes are happening right in front of our eyes, but since they are happening so slowly over thousands or even millions of years
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
reply to post by Youji69
So how cant that be the case if the animal is dead before it ever get's time to "evolve"???
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
reply to post by repressed
But they are still bacteria are they not? So not actually one genus becoming another - fail.
And you can drop the childish sarcasm.
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
reply to post by john_bmth
So i ask a simple question, which should be easy for you to answer as many of you claim creation is just a myth and evolution is a fact, yet you cannot even provide one piece of proof that any genus has become a new kind of animal, then you expect me to believe we can from a fish, then an ape like ancestor etc...?
Incredible.edit on 14-9-2011 by RevelationGeneration because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
reply to post by Chrysalis
They are still plants. Not ever do you see a plant growing legs and becoming an animal, so how can evilution be true?
The change takes place over a long amount of time in slight increments.
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Question - where is the SCIENTIFIC evidence for one genus EVER becoming another genus? (Kind)
I don't mean your "stories" and "charts" in evilution textbooks, I mean Scientific Method science.
Thanks.edit on 14-9-2011 by RevelationGeneration because: (no reason given)