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Old 01-12-2006, 04:01 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by glatt
My point is more along the lines of:

If you cut a dog's tail off, and then breed it, it will not produce puppies with short tails.
If you cut off the tails of 100 generations of 100 lines of the same breed of dog, wouldn't they eventually start evolving shorter tails? I thought that was one of the basic tenets of evolutionary science -- that the environment can make us change over time. Like back when we were apes, we started standing upright to see over the tall grass, and it stuck.

I'm really not joking.
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