Evolution for Dummies and Christians

sure, but that's not evolution.

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gnojek may not know, but i do. one for every planet, one for the sun, and one for the moon.planet - english - latin - french
mars = tuesday - martis - mardi
mercury = wednesday - mercurii - mercredi
jupiter = thursday - jovis - jeudi
venus = friday - veneris - vendredi
saturn = saturday - saturni - samedi
the sun = sunday - solis - dimanche
the moon = monday - lunae - lundisee the correlations?this system was proposed by persian astronomers, to the romans who adopted and integrated it into their julian calendar in the first century ad. christianity was adopted by rome almost 250 years later, but it fit seamlessly, and has since been confused. it's simply a coincidence that the bible chooses the same number of days we do. in reality, a week has no astrological significance. it could be any number of days, really.althought it usually somewhat coincides with the cycles of the moon. but only somewhat.

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yes, that's why i put the latin and french equivalents, alongside the english.(and what chiroptera said).but thanks for picking up what i left out.

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one intermediate can obviously interbreed with the ones before and after it, but after a certain distance, the ability to interbredd declines so that end results generally cannot breed.with a chihuahua and a great dane, i suspect it's actually strictly practical reasons, not genetic ones.

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”Mind-boggling’ variation
At the DNA level, two randomly chosen dogs differ only about as much as two randomly chosen people, yet the variation in appearance, size and behavior in dogs is “just mind-boggling,” Lander said in an earlier interview.

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“How is it within one narrow gene pool you can produce Chihuahuas and Great Danes?” he asked.

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Much of the answer involves differences in turning gene activity on and off, he said, and further study could improve the understanding of that.

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seriously, can you image a great dane getting on with a chihuahua? either way, i feel bad for the female.This message has been edited by arachnophilia, 12-07-2005 11:29 PM

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no, but apparently if you put a lion and a tiger of opposite sexes in a cage, they do mate.

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Known ligers exist due to human influence, either by deliberate human intervention, or by humans putting lions and tigers in enclosed spaces together. In natural conditions tigers and lions generally do not inhabit the same territory - the two species used to coexist in the wild in India, but inhabited different regions.

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Liger - Wikipedia

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the only reason they don't breed in the wild is because they don't live in the same places.

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who said anything about apes and humans? i was just pointing out that chihuahuas and great danes could concievably interbreed if it were practical. they are the same species, even genetically.even across species, many animals can and do interbreed. some because of humans, other do it themselves.

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Some animal interspecies hybrids are:

• Mule, a cross of female horse and a male donkey.
• Hinny, a cross between a female donkey and a male horse.
• Zeedonk/zonkey, a zebra/donkey cross.
• Zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross
• Zony/zetland, a zebra/pony cross ("zony" is a generic term; "zetland" is specifically a hybrid of the Shetland pony breed with a zebra)
• Dzo or zo: a cross between a domestic cow/bull and a yak. See also Bovid hybrid.
• Beefalo/cattalo, a cross of an American Bison and a domestic cow. This is a fertile breed, although the two species are in different genera (Bison and Bos, respectively). See also Bovid hybrid.
• Hybrids between sheep and goat, such as the Toast of Batswana .
• Hybrids between black bears, brown bears, Kodiak and polar bears ursinae hybrids.
• Wolfdog, the cross between a domestic dog and a Wolf. Fertile Canid hybrids occur between coyotes, wolves, dingos, jackals and domestic dogs. Dogs and wolves may be considered the same species, making wolfdogs a non-hybrid.
• Hybrids between spotted owls and barred owls
• Liger (or Tigon, depending on the parents' genders), a cross between a Lion and a Tiger. Various other wild cat crosses are known involving the Lynx, Bobcat, Leopard, Serval, etc (Felid_hybrids).
• Hybrids between the domestic cat and wild cat species. The domestic cat, African wild cat and European wildcat may be considered variant populations of the same species (F libyca), making such crosses non-hybrids.
• Congolese Spotted Lion
• Cama, a cross between a Camel and a Llama, also an intergeneric hybrid.
• Wolphin, a fertile but very rare cross between a False Killer Whale and a Bottlenose Dolphin.
• A fertile cross between an albino King Snake and an albino Corn Snake.
• At Chester Zoo in England, a cross between African elephant (male) and Indian elephant (female). The calf was named Motty. It died of gut infection after a few days.
• Cagebird breeders sometimes make hybrids between species of finch, such as goldfinch x canary.

Some plant hybrids include:

• Leyland Cypress, a hybrid between Monterey Cypress and Nootka Cypress.
• Loganberry, a hybrid between raspberry and blackberry.
• London Plane, a hybrid between Oriental Plane and American Plane (American Sycamore).
• Tangelo, a hybrid of a mandarin orange and a pomelo or a grapefruit which may have been developed in Asia about 3,500 years ago.
• Triticale, a wheat-rye hybrid.
• Wheat, Most modern and ancient wheat breeds are themselves hybrids.

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Hybrid - Wikipedia

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evidently, this line does not lie at the species boundary. yes, i do. do you know what i'm saying? evidently not, mr. jump-to-conclusions.

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i hate to be a pain in the ass about this, but there ARE species that can and do interbreed. i don't believe in aids either.

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