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Reversing Undesirable Fish Evolution
TaeKwonDood writes "Your granddad's approach to fishing — throw the little 'uns back — may have hurt their evolution, but we can reverse that, says a group of researchers, with a change of policy.
Fish have been 'reprogramming' themselves to be smaller and live longer. Welcome to evolutionary dynamics, Lamarck. But, no, they are serious. And it can be fixed within 12 generations. What do the smart people out there think about this? Are they using the term 'evolution' the wrong way?"
Of course not! Hollywood would be proud!
Oh, and they can get it down to 6 generations if they reroute the power from the main EPS conduits through the deflector dish in order to create a reversed polarity tachyon field. The tachyons will interact with the quantum state of the fish at a subatomic level, forcing them to grow larger. Sort of like inflating a balloon. With tachyons.
One species is trying to grow legs and arms so it can crawl to land and build nuclear weapons to end the world. We must stop this before it's too late!. -Anonymous Anomalocaris
Table-ized A.I.
Are they using the term 'evolution' the wrong way?
What makes you think this wouldn't be an example of evolution?
Mostly the desire to be a self-righteous pedant and ask Slashdot armchair biologists to weigh in and overrule a group of university researchers.
Clearly this is yet MORE poof of intelligent design! How can you not see it!
Whenever I go out to the bars, I make it a point to take the smallest woman I can find home with me. It is my hope that within generations, the women remaining in the bars will all be larger and provide... um... ::analogy fail::
Oh yeah? Then how come "the one that got away" always gets bigger?
And the more beer a fisherman pours down his gills, the bigger it gets! Just get a couple of twelve-packs and you'll have lakes full of uncaught big fish in a couple of hours.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
Oh yeah? Then how come "the one that got away" always gets bigger?
And the more beer a fisherman pours down his gills, the bigger it gets! Just get a couple of twelve-packs and you'll have lakes full of uncaught big fish in a couple of hours.
It's a well-known fact that fish feed on empty beer cans. The more they eat, the bigger they get.
No, it's not even spring yet.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I was hoping the first 10 minutes of Idiocracy wasn't true. Unfortunately, after returning from Tomorrowland at Disney and reading this article, I fear the Cleavons will take over the earth.
-- $G
Most biologists are just relieved when we hear the word "evolution" used without "intelligent design" or "superpowers" being used in the same sentence.
Our ancestors were all strong and built like Schwarzenegger before the Predators came and hunted them down.