Interesting Genetic Research Published on Dog Evolution (page 4)

Satanus

Adaptation is evolution: do you deny this?

S

My English is limited so let me explain it with an example. I'm from a tropic island with warm weather all year round. I live in Massachusetts, where winter is extreme, so I adapt to living in this climate having an insulated and heated house and wearing clothes that protect me from the weather. I've adapted, but none of my physiology and anatomy has changed. Therefore, evolution may be closely related to adaptation, but not the same.

cantleave

What happened to the ancestors of the domestic is far from the adjustment you have just described.

You have changed your behaviour to adjust to the different temperatures. That is not adaptation.

EntirelyPossible

You haven't physically adapted, you've altered your environment to suit conditions. That example in no way explains how physiological adaptions in organisms is different from evolution.

still thinking

marking to come back later and read...thanks

wolfman85

- adjust- Princeton's WordNet

adjust, conform, adapt(verb)
adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
Synonyms:
adapt, set, accommodate, align, aline, adjust, correct, line up, conform

-suit-

suit, accommodate, fit(verb)
be agreeable or acceptable to
Synonyms:
go, conciliate, outfit, suit, fit, gibe, admit, fit out, equip, hold, meet, agree, adapt, check, match, tally, correspond, jibe, oblige, lodge, accommodate, reconcile, become, befit, conform to, beseem

So like it or not, your words "adjust" and "suit" after all is adapt.

cantleave

You were the one saying that evolution is not adaptation.

You have created a strawman.

wolfman85

And IS NOT. Now, who did create a strawman?? YOU!!!

Interesting Genetic Research Published on Dog Evolution

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