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Definition of Evolution

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09-03-2007 12:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 129 by Fosdick
09-03-2007 11:48 AM

Disagreeing with "beneficial"
I'm forced to disagree with your inclusion of beneficial HM.
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Evolution happens through things like drift without any "benefit" being involved. Evolution may also happen that eventually leads to the extinction of a species. In fact, very often but only some of the time because of the evolution, more often because of too rapid environmental change.
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