stevestory

Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005
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Quote | The researchers are not sure whether the gene that suppressed the parasite emerged from a mutation in the local population or whether it was introduced by migratory Southeast Asian butterflies in which the mutation already existed.
But they said that the repopulation of male butterflies illustrates rapid natural selection, a process in which traits that help a species survive become more prominent in a population. |
Count on the ID people to pay great attention to paragraph 1, and ignore paragraph 2.
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