Is genetic variation the raw material for evolution?

Darwin’s theory of evolution included overpopulation, variation, and speciation. However, Darwin could not acc?

  • Darwin’s theory of evolution included overpopulation, variation, and speciation. However, Darwin could not account for the cause of individual variations within a species. How do ...show more

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    mutations in the DNA sequence Why did you ask this in the travel Australia section?

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Anyone who has visited Darwin knows that many people up there belong to a different species.

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No two people live the same life. The influences on me are not the same as the influences on you even if we live in the same town. The variations are not enough to lead to speciation but they can lead to overpopulation in some families or communities but not in others within the same town. People are different. Phenotypic variations are not the same in everybody just as with plants and animals. Social factors are more complicated in human societies and because of our position on the intelligence scale and the kind of societies that have developed we have ways of dealing with them that other species don't get. In some societies those can be more liberal than in others and more varieties of people appear. In any species phenotypic variations due to various pressures and influences can be different in some individuals or populations than in others, depending on where they live and what else lives there and what conditions are normal there. Not all frogs live around equal ponds or have the same neighbours or local climate and so population differences can arise. There may be different social or hunting habits and feeding styles, diffferent mating times to suit the conditions or other factors. No two places are the same and if a type of organism has the ability to change then quite often some will to suit what is around them and a new trait has appeared. Genetic mutations can also change populations over time so some may have some new advantage another population of the same species doesn't have. It doesn't have to be enough for speciation but it can be enough to make different varieties of the same species. It can go the other way of course. Not all genetic changes are beneficial. Some are a disaster. We see what lives mostly, not what doesn't. @Fruit...Auto placement by Yahoo's filtering thing. We had a zoology one about hot dogs once. Well dogs aren't about cooking in Yahoo's list of what's what. It's probably seen the word Darwin and gone...ahhh, that's in Australia.......find the section with Darwin Australia in it.....

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