I bought my mom a Kodak LS743 digital camera for Christmas several years ago. Then she foolishly allowed me to borrow it when I went on vacation. During the course of that trip I absent mindedly set the thing on top of the car while getting in and left it there. Several miles later, after merging onto the freeway, I heard it slide allllll the way to the back of the roof and then launch wildly off before smashing into the pavement. Looking in the rearview I saw it skip and bounce along the road, and saw what I took to be parts shattering off of it. I pulled over and managed to retrieve it before anyone behind me could run it over. The only things that had come off during its 70mph thrill ride were the button on the back (the mechanism it covered was intact), and the battery along with the memory card had flown out. After snapping everything back in place, it was in perfect working order with only a mild case of roadburn to show for it. If only her car had been so easy to fix after I borrowed that and annihilated a deer with it...
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Punctuated equilibrium is not a challenge to natural selection's role in evolutionary theory. It is expected to occur when environmental conditions shift in such a way that rampant, aggressive selection takes place amidst long periods of oscillating and/or stabilizing selection. The concept of punctuated equilibrium wouldn't work at all without selection, so what you're saying makes no sense.
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I bought my mom a Kodak LS743 digital camera for Christmas several years ago. Then she foolishly allowed me to borrow it when I went on vacation. During the course of that trip I absent mindedly set the thing on top of the car while getting in and left it there. Several miles later, after merging onto the freeway, I heard it slide allllll the way to the back of the roof and then launch wildly off before smashing into the pavement. Looking in the rearview I saw it skip and bounce along the road, and saw what I took to be parts shattering off of it. I pulled over and managed to retrieve it before anyone behind me could run it over. The only things that had come off during its 70mph thrill ride were the button on the back (the mechanism it covered was intact), and the battery along with the memory card had flown out. After snapping everything back in place, it was in perfect working order with only a mild case of roadburn to show for it. If only her car had been so easy to fix after I borrowed that and annihilated a deer with it... http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_US&pq-path=1764
Doing science is always about challenging the previous order
Doing science is about working hard to avoid spreading bad information.