Recent content by Dando Dangerslice

Ha, I dig. It's odd, I get the impression there's a fair amount of Americans in this thread (would make sense considering the ludicrous hour it is over here in England) but I actually don't know anybody in real life who doesn't believe in evolution. As a city-boy I always think of myself...

Dinosaurs showed up late afternoon, December 30th. We were about fifteen seconds from New Year.

Also, there are similarities in all DNA. Plants too! Plants are our very distant cousins. We're more closely related to mushrooms (that is, if you believe in that kind of thing) I'm not sure I understand. Individuals... evolving? Within their own lifetimes? Isn't that just... changing?

Yeah! Good job

I feel a little in the dark here, can someone fill me in on the difference between micro evolution and macro evolution? Is it, as I think someone already said, just a question of size? As in, small things evolve and big ones don't?

there was one on the first page of this thread :-P

My above post was into from a Dawkins book: The Ancestor's Tale. Fascinating read, even if he does mis-quote my hero, H.G. Wells, and call him a racist

Here's an interesting bit of info: The herring gull and the lesser black-backed gull are two species of birds that live around the Arctic Circle. They mingle frequently around the UK and even live together in colonies, but they don't interbreed. Now, if you trace populations of the...