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Old Aug 7, 2005, 02:15 am   #20 (permalink) (top)
SteveA
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I don't know about "all the time." Nature takes millions of years to create new species. We take a few hundred years to get them extinct.
Well, millions of years is the time frame over which large scale evolutions occur but it takes many millions of tries to get there. As far as I know there are actually new species of animals (especially insects) created almost daily. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Of course those changes are small and something like a fox wasn't a single lucky random mutation from a beaver but a long chain instead.

Yes, we can wipe species out faster than nature creates them but I wanted to point out that people often forget it's not a static system but has new additions on a regular basis as well.


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