Religious Ceremony Leads To Evolution of Cave Fish

An anonymous reader writes "A centuries-old religious ceremony of an indigenous people in southern Mexico has led to evolutionary changes in a local species of fish, say researchers at Texas A&M University. Apparently since before Columbus arrived, the Zoque people would venture each spring into the sulfuric cave Cueva del Azufre to beg the gods for bountiful rain. As part of the ritual, they released into the cave's waters a leaf-bound paste made of lime and the ground-up root of the barbasco plant, a natural fish toxin. The rest is worth reading, but the upshot is that the fish living in the cave waters eventually got wise, genetically speaking."

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Re:I predict

[DarkKnightRadick]

Why hello there.
*takes the bait*

I will say that this is not a case of evolution in action, but adaptation (there is a difference; and yes, probably will get modded as flamebait, you evolutionists can't stand to be told you're wrong).

Re:I predict

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Bullshit. We are at war with religion. Tolerance is tearing humanity apart. Tolerance is their tool, they have convinced the rest of the world that we must tolerate their stupidity. They are against everything that is good for the human kind. We must destroy them, and everything they stand for, if we want to move forward. Religion has been holding us back for ages. We could truly be an evolved race by now, if it weren't for them.

They have murdered the best of our kind for thousands of years, and still some of us protects them.

We have to be outspoken. We have to be merciless. The biggest dangers doesn't lie in those irrational masses that believe in made up bullshit, it lies in the traitors: all the rationalists that don't have the balls to stand up against them. You are humanity's biggest enemy.