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Re:Tasmanian Devils Developing Resistance to Transmissible C... by DiffEq on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:39AM (#12398186)
No, that is how Natural Selection works, not Evolution. This is a demonstration of natural selection, as the resistance was already resident in the DNA. Natural Selection != Evolution.
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Re:Tasmanian Devils Developing Resistance to Transmissible C... by adwn on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:46AM (#12398223)
Natural selection is a crucial component of evolution.

> This is a demonstration of natural selection, as the resistance was already resident in the DNA.

It doesn't matter which came first, the external pressure or the genetic trait. In both cases it's evolution.

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Re:Tasmanian Devils Developing Resistance to Transmissible C... by dekhn on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:24AM (#12398506)
Natural selection is a major component of evolution. The other is mutation, which produces the variation that natural selection operates on.

The paper specifically based its analysis on SNPs, a large fraction of which are novel mutations that did not exist in preexisting fixed alleles.

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Re:Tasmanian Devils Developing Resistance to Transmissible C... by rimantas on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:46AM (#12398228)
To select you need to have options to select from.
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