[_ Old Earth _] Evolution in action?

[reznwerks]

"The researchers' conclusion: The fish appear to be on the verge of forming two separate species.

"We think we are seeing evolution in action," said Matt Arnegard, a neurobiology postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Carl Hopkins, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, who has been recording electric fish in Gabon since the 1970s.


The research, published in the June issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology, describes how some of these fish violate an otherwise regular pattern of mating behavior, and so could be living examples of a species of fish diverging into separate species."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 213407.htm

 

[Charlie Hatchett]

The article ends with:

...On the other hand, the fish could be a single species. "This could be just a polymorphism, like eye color in humans, that violates the fishes' general evolutionary pattern but doesn't give rise to separate species," said Arnegard, who will return to Gabon in June to conduct further tests, funded by the National Geographic Society...

Sounds like he's out in the field right now gathering more data.

I guess we'll see wht further data he comes up with.

 

[Charlie Hatchett]

The article ends with:

...On the other hand, the fish could be a single species. "This could be just a polymorphism, like eye color in humans, that violates the fishes' general evolutionary pattern but doesn't give rise to separate species," said Arnegard, who will return to Gabon in June to conduct further tests, funded by the National Geographic Society...

Sounds like he's out in the field right now gathering more data.

I guess we'll see what further data he comes up with.

 

[moniker]

Well, the basic concept behind evolution is that it is always occurring. You, yourself are an evolutionary process having genes which are different from your parents. The part where it gets muddied is when what constitutes a species comes into play. It both is and isn't an arbitrary thing and the line that separates, say, a red jungle fowl from a chicken is a mile wide.

 

[dad]

"The researchers' conclusion: The fish appear to be on the verge of forming two separate species.

"We think we are seeing evolution in action," said Matt Arnegard, a neurobiology postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Carl Hopkins, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, who has been recording electric fish in Gabon since the 1970s.


The research, published in the June issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology, describes how some of these fish violate an otherwise regular pattern of mating behavior, and so could be living examples of a species of fish diverging into separate species."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 213407.htm

Great. We have some evolution going on now. Before the flood there was also a lot, I think, it went on real real real real fast. Hyper evolution. It all started at the creation, and garden. So?