Evolution is slowing snails down

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Garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms.

Natural selection is favouring snails with reduced metabolic rates, researchers in Chile have discovered.

It is the first time that evolution has been shown to select for this trait in individuals of any species.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8043000/8043689.stm

 

[bustybbwlover]

hmmm interesting it reminds me of an article i read about how rats are evolving faster than humans. this isn't the exact article but it talks about how rats evolving faster. i remember the rate given in the other article being rats evolving 3 times faster than humans.
http://www.vetscite.org/publish/items/001750/index.html

here's one that talks about it altho not the one i originally read
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/3352843/Britains-rat-infestation.html

 

[Friday on my mind]

"Snail's pace

The researchers now plan to answer the ultimate question: is having a slow metabolism linked to moving slowly?

If it is, that means that snails are not only evolving to use energy more slowly, but are increasingly moving at an even lower snail's pace. "




I have a religious alternative answer.

God likes to eat snails and is old and was having hard time catching them.:bowdown:

 

[Ray Ecks]

Very interesting stuff fellas. Thanks for sharing.

 

[curiousWAN]

did you ever heard any religious shitty book mentioning dinosaurs?

there was t-rex and stegosaurus first, they eat the shitty apple in the heaven. miraculously, a snake which definitely emerged after those dinasours in the fossile records fooled them. why they don't eat the snake instead of apple?

but wait, apples even younger than t-rexes i bet.

 

[BlueBalls]

I have a religious alternative answer.

God likes to eat snails and is old and was having hard time catching them.:bowdown:

But wouldnt that mean God was French? That isnt going to go down well with the fundamentalists. It would mean God wasnt American (as I'm sure most of those people like to believe) .... but a "cheese eating surrender monkey" :eek:

:1orglaugh

 

[skechers]

Bush, on the phone: Hey Cheney... Yeah, I know, I heard! French! Fuck... So you think he took that freedom fries thing personally? Oh man... I need a bump. Hold on a second.

*Sniff... Sniff...*

 

[tiger1977]

But wouldnt that mean God was French? That isnt going to go down well with the fundamentalists. It would mean God wasnt American (as I'm sure most of those people like to believe) .... but a "cheese eating surrender monkey" :eek:

:1orglaugh

So, that would mean that God actually exists.

 

[BlueBalls]

So, that would mean that God actually exists.

I wouldnt go that far :hatsoff:

 

[tiger1977]

You wouldn't go so far as to say "God is French" or that "God doesn't exist"?






Wait a minute, isn't that the same thing?

 

[BlueBalls]

You wouldn't go so far as to say "God is French" or that "God doesn't exist"?
Wait a minute, isn't that the same thing?

I wouldnt go as far as to say "God actually exists" as you stated in your previous post.

 

[skechers]

You wouldn't go so far as to say "God is French" or that "God doesn't exist"?






Wait a minute, isn't that the same thing?

Well, the difference is, one's for laughs, and the other is spiritual theory.

And this thread is about snails....

 

[Friday on my mind]

You wouldn't go so far as to say "God is French" or that "God doesn't exist"?






Wait a minute, isn't that the same thing?

His post was just one atheist having fun with another (me).And my post was just poking fun at those who would deny evolution.

 

[curiousWAN]

god is dead. no rip for that fucker. even if some religious shitty book says true, do you see any miracles or such stupid things now? no. why we should believe then? we are supposed to believe that miracles happened before us? where's the fucking proof? it has been written in this shitty book? how you can prove what that book says is true? because it's godsent? sigh.......... that's fucking not fair, show me a fucking miracle "now" and then judge me, right? nothing like that going to happen. cause it never been happened. snails slowing down, people getting dumber and dumber and therefore religions and racism and shit getting stronger and stronger. snails even wiser than us, they know what's good for them instinctively or molecularily or genetically or whatever... we, we don't know a shit. we know a lot in fact, but we are full of fear. we wanna live forever, so we have invented god. that's it.

someone just explain me why god was once active, sending prophets everywhere, helping those prophets with his/her divine powers.................... but now, while we definitely need it, why he is not sending some prophet? things are a fucking mess for sure. BECAUSE there's no god and this non existent god can't send prophets.

 

[BlueBalls]

Well at least two people got it...




Dammit BlueBalls!!!!

BE ... MORE ... FUNNY!!!

 

[skechers]

Well at least two people got it...




Dammit BlueBalls!!!!

BE ... MORE ... FUNNY!!!

God damnit!



*Needs Coffee.*

 

[curiousWAN]

God damnit!



*Needs Coffee.*

oh my fucking god!

 

[skechers]

god is dead. no rip for that fucker. even if some religious shitty book says true, do you see any miracles or such stupid things now? no. why we should believe then? we are supposed to believe that miracles happened before us? where's the fucking proof? it has been written in this shitty book? how you can prove what that book says is true? because it's godsent? sigh.......... that's fucking not fair, show me a fucking miracle "now" and then judge me, right? nothing like that going to happen. cause it never been happened. snails slowing down, people getting dumber and dumber and therefore religions and racism and shit getting stronger and stronger. snails even wiser than us, they know what's good for them instinctively or molecularily or genetically or whatever... we, we don't know a shit. we know a lot in fact, but we are full of fear. we wanna live forever, so we have invented god. that's it.

someone just explain me why god was once active, sending prophets everywhere, helping those prophets with his/her divine powers.................... but now, while we definitely need it, why he is not sending some prophet? things are a fucking mess for sure. BECAUSE there's no god and this non existent god can't send prophets.

They're just stories, meant to inspire faith, and (hopefully) goodwill. When people start taking them seriously, that's when the problems start, bud.

I think most people, well I hope most people, understand that bushes don't talk, even when you set them on fire, or that you can't just clap your hands and part seas. People should think of them as fables, like 'The Emperor's New Clothes', or 'Stone Soup'.

 

[skechers]

oh my fucking god!

Dude, what?

 

[curiousWAN]

Dude, what?

for a second, i thought it's a bigger font contest with random sentence including the word fuck. (call me dellusional if you want)