Threatened

... most of species alive today undergone whole genome duplications. Presumably, these events occurred to prevent extinction of those species which threatened those species after diversification event(http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/5/887.full.pdf+html). Triggering genome duplication in ...

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... the adaptation is a genetic response to a threat, environment, etc. Therefore, how could it have those adaptations when the species was never threatened? Also, if the individual never had this adaptation, and the adaptation was never present in the population, how can it appear as genetic ...

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... (seals, dolphins etc.) and the birds were able to fill all the niches that would otherwise have been filled by mammals. Sadly they too, are threatened by extinction... =( Wouldn't it be awful if our own national icon were to die out?

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... be immune to the laws of your country, and shouldn't be able to get off the hook, whereas if you were forced to steal something, by people who had threatened your family, and actually had the power to harm them, it would be a different case altogether. I know this is kind of an extreme circumstance, ...

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... been presented to Christians for decades. You're trusting very untrustworthy sources - and by that I don't mean the book, but people who are so threatened by actual evidence that they actively lie about it. Even the Darwin quote is hopelessly out of context. For instance, no transitional forms? ...

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