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- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!bobsarv
- From: bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver)
- Subject: Re: Duane T. Gish, Ph. D.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.030706.20972@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:07:06 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- Keywords: info requested
- References: <Jan.21.21.49.24.1993.23599@remus.rutgers.edu>
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- / CLAIM #2: "Darwin cited the giraffe as an outstanding example of
- / natural selection. Supposedly, as a result of extended droughts, the
- / supply of green leaves could be obtained only at the top of the trees,
- / and therefore the shorter necked giraffe died off. And the giraffes
- / which grew longer necks survived. However, there is no evidence
- / whatever in the fossil record or elsewhere that giraffes with short
- / necks have ever existed.
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- Well, I can't address this part, my not being a paleontoligist, but the
- following part of the question:
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- / And what would have happened to young
- / giraffes with relatively short necks?"
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- is pretty damn obvious. The proto-giraffes were mammals. The young
- proto-giraffes only had to be able to reach as high as their mother's
- udder to feed. By the time they gained any considerable size as
- adolescents, they would be reaching the lower branches of the same trees
- their parents were feeding on.
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