Epigenetics, Darwin's Finches, & Natural Selection (Classroom Series)
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Do Darwin's Finches prove evolution by adaptation and natural selection, or do they demonstrate Creation with Continuous Environmental Tracking? Do epigenetic mechanisms control finch beak and feet shapes and sizes?
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- What did you just say disproves evolution? Mice, lizards, and finches, of course. Well, I'm not sure what you mean.
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- Evolution is driven by nature selecting the fittest creatures to survive and reproduce, passing on their favorable traits while the others die out.
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- Well, how does that happen, professor? Well, mutations and natural selection. But research is now showing that creatures are pre -programmed to adapt to their environments in just a few generations.
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- You see, their survivability is not just dependent on random chance, but it's because they're created to do so. And here's where the finches come in, okay?
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- Darwin believed that different shapes and sizes of finch feet and beaks, depending on their different islands, were showing evolution, right?
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- But this is where epigenetics comes in, okay? So, mice. They can grow different vertebrae depending on if they're in the forest or in the prairie.
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- Lizards can grow longer legs depending on their location. You see, this isn't just some random act of chance.