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Fossil Record Shows Evolution as an Errant Fabricated Mess

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Speedwell said:
Because only those individuals who are successful enough in their environment to reproduce will be able to pass their particular variations on to the next generation.
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What if those variations have nothing to do with reproduction?
 
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OldWiseGuy said:
What if those variations have nothing to do with reproduction?
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Those are neutral. They tend to build up but not change a species in any meaningful way. If they were meaningful mutations then they would affect the ability to reproduce.
 
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OldWiseGuy said:
What if those variations have nothing to do with reproduction?
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You mean that they have no effect one way or another on the creature's survival? Then the trait in question will continue to vary and all those variations will be passed on. It may be that in future some variant of that trait may begin to be useful to the species' survival, then the environment will begin to select for it.
 
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