Evolution!! Coolest mutant you'll see today

Look at the peoples feet in the shot , I doubt this picture was taken in Russia.

It looks like a bloated puppy to me.

Poor little thing
 
charver said:
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Mutation is a very, very small part of the evolutionary process. 99.9 percent of the time mutation is detrimental to the resulting animal, as evidenced above.
 
Mutation is a very, very small part of the evolutionary process.

huh? I thought mutations were what caused changes... we call the changes evolution, right? Traits are passed on from generation to generation.

Puhlease expalin how mutation is such a tiny part.
 
I'm tempted to say something like, "50:1 it is another hoax like the Bigfoot in the freezer from last year."

Immie
 
tinfoil said:
Mutation is a very, very small part of the evolutionary process.

huh? I thought mutations were what caused changes... we call the changes evolution, right? Traits are passed on from generation to generation.

Puhlease expalin how mutation is such a tiny part.
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Mutation is a random change (read: error) in the genetic code that alters a trait of an animal spontaneously. For instance, being born with six fingers or a third arm. Mutation is not the driving force of the evolutionary process. That's natural selection. Mutation is a very, very, very small part. Most of the time mutations kill the offspring, they don't give it some sort of trait that helps it survive and procreate.

Natural selection causes changes gradually over generations.
 
ib1yysguy said:
Mutation is a random change (read: error) in the genetic code that alters a trait of an animal spontaneously. For instance, being born with six fingers or a third arm. Mutation is not the driving force of the evolutionary process. That's natural selection. Mutation is a very, very, very small part. Most of the time mutations kill the offspring, they don't give it some sort of trait that helps it survive and procreate.

Natural selection causes changes gradually over generations.
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OK thnx. I get what you mean
 
ib1yysguy said:
Mutation is a random change (read: error) in the genetic code that alters a trait of an animal spontaneously. For instance, being born with six fingers or a third arm. Mutation is not the driving force of the evolutionary process. That's natural selection. Mutation is a very, very, very small part. Most of the time mutations kill the offspring, they don't give it some sort of trait that helps it survive and procreate.

Natural selection causes changes gradually over generations.
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Genetic drift, that tiny change or set of changes that take place over time also play a role, but you're right, it's natural selection, or the successful procreation of those organisms that survive to pass on their genes, that determine the process of evolution. That's also why it takes so long in species with long procreation cycles and why so much basic research uses bacteria and drosophila (fruit flies) to study genetics.
 
Damocles said:
It's a dog.
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I think it's a hoax. Or maybe some inheritable disease (some very, very bizarre inheritable disease). The probability of a random mutation creating something so different from a dog yet still able to live is so infinitesimal it's not even worth considering. And dogs and humans can't breed. It's physically impossible for all but the most related species to breed (we probably couldn't even breed with neanderthal's).
 
Thorn said:
Genetic drift, that tiny change or set of changes that take place over time also play a role, but you're right, it's natural selection, or the successful procreation of those organisms that survive to pass on their genes, that determine the process of evolution. That's also why it takes so long in species with long procreation cycles and why so much basic research uses bacteria and drosophila (fruit flies) to study genetics.
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But for a lot of changes mutation can provide a spark needed to change into something completely different.

Otherwise we'd all just be very, very advanced single celled bacteria.
 
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