So I may not post a whole lot or really get into a whole lot about stuff related to my major, but I came across an article today from National Geographic about a bunch of lizards transplanted from one island to a neighboring island. The lizards managed to evolve in a 30 year period. The experiment was never meant to last that long, but because the island is part of Croatia and there was a war in the mid-90′s, the scientists couldn’t get back there when they had originally planned.
Now, I have a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I happen to be a science junkie and love this kind of stuff, especially when it basically proves everything I had learned about evolution. Evolution does not normally happen in such a short period of time. The article said it would be the equivalent of humans gaining a new appendix with a new purpose in a few hundred years (that may not mean much to some, but humans haven’t changed so drastically in many thousands of years).
I’m really curious what the creationists will have to say about this…
I found it on Boing Boing.
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