Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Evolution At Work


It is NOT the big changes. It is NOT a chimpanzee giving birth to a baby human being. It IS the little things.

In just a couple of years field mustard began sprouting earlier in response to a shift in precipitation paterns. This isn't a new species of field mustard. But the drought conditions caused the late sprouters to die off.

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