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Driving

1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. Driving box, a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; called also, simply, driver.


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Re: Diversifying selection

... can interpret selection as non directional? Selection is response to the environment and resources, leading to variations--how can a response be a driving force for completely different phenotypes which require a makeover in the genome? I understand that variation has occurred and this can fit ...

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by AFJ
Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:33 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Diversifying selection
Replies: 15
Views: 453

Re: Diversifying selection

... snow. Their defense is their speed, agility and instinct to hide in vegetation , not their color. [Diversifying] Selection is believed to be the driving force behind sympatric speciation.Wikipedia NS is a fact, but it is not so much a driving force or mechanism as it a natural result. It does ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:43 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Diversifying selection
Replies: 15
Views: 453

Re: what animal could this be?

I don't have a photo, I was driving at the time and stopped to get a good look at it...didn't have a place to pull over, get out and snap a picture though. I'm in the US, in Idaho.

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by lafemelle
Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:19 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: what animal could this be?
Replies: 9
Views: 335

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... slowly kill it off. Pretty much all those genetic diseases you mentioned are evolutionary almost irrelevant. There are much more powerful forces driving species development (e.g. nutrition, infectious diseas, predation) than a couple of random mutations that now and then kills an individual of ...

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by biohazard
Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:56 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16594

Natural selection is proven wrong

... small, random changes in traits, and natural selection of the variants best-suited for their environment.[4] The second major mechanism driving evolution is genetic drift, an independent process that produces random changes in the frequency of traits in a population. Genetic drift results ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16594
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