Today at 06:17 AM Tawhano said this in Post #118
Heres something I have always wonder about concerning natural selection that maybe someone here can clarify it for me. I remember watching a documentary about a species of plant (sage?) that only grew on one particular island. This island was where a species of sea turtles go to lay their eggs. The sea turtles would come on shore, exhausted, and eat the plants. The results of this were that the top of the plants would be eaten down to ground level on the entire bed of plants. The plants survive because unlike other similar species their seeds were buried underground. How can this be explained in regards to the theme of this thread?
If evolution takes such a long period of time wouldnt the species have died out before the mutation of burying its seeds underground took hold and spread throughout the population? Also, was it the plant that decided to bury its seeds underground or just a fluke of mutation?
Interesting point. I'd like to give it some more consideration.
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