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Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl
The wilderness is encroaching over abandoned towns in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment: "Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels. But Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a biologist who studies barn swallows at Chernobyl, says that while wild animals have settled in the area, they have struggled to build new populations."
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this is one of the best short explanations of evolution I have bumped into so far.
RANDOM mutations. So, the way we are? we are that way just because. No explanation. We are how we are by chance.
That's why I get so upset when I read in popular magazines articles that state questions like "Why do men prefer larger breasts on their female partners?" followed by the erroneus answer: "because larger-breasted women were able to take care better of their children in the stone-age".
Wrong.
The correct answer would be: "I'ts a mystery, men that like large-breasted women like that by chance, because of random mutations in their ancestors that made them prefer big boobs instead of small. And that particular preference caused that .