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"It is doubt ful wheth er any genes that than in di vid u als—and that in di vid -
are not plei o trop ic ex ist in high er or - u als with in that pop u la tion were
gan isms." 186 noth ing more than gene-car ry ing ve -
Due to this char ac ter is tic in liv ing hi cles—brought pop u la tion ge net ics
things' genes, any de fect oc cur ring to the fore.
in any gene in the DNA as a re sult of
a chance mu ta tion will af fect more
PRE-ADAPTATION MYTH,
than one or gan. Thus the mu ta tion
THE
will have more than one de struc tive
ef fect. Even if one of these ef fects is Evolutionists' ef forts to ac count
hy poth e sized to be ben e fi cial, as the for the or i gin of spe cies in terms of
re sult of an ex treme ly rare co in ci - tran si tion from wa ter to land, and
dence, the oth er ef fects' in ev i ta ble from land to the air, re quire wide-
dam age will can cel out any ad van - ran ging chan ges. Consider, for in -
tage. (See Mutation: An Imaginary stance, how a fish emerg ing from
Mechanism.) wa ter might adapt to dry land.
Therefore, it is im pos si ble for liv - Unless it un der goes rap id chan ges in
ing things to have un der gone ev o lu - its re spir a to ry sys tem, ex cre to ry
tion, be cause no mech a nism ex ists mech a nism and skel e tal struc ture, it
that can cause them to evolve. will in ev i ta bly die. A se ries of mu ta -
tions must im me di ate ly en dow the
fish with lungs, elon gate its fins in to
POPULATION
feet, be stow kid neys on it, and give
Populations are ag gre ga tions of a its skin a wa ter-re tain ing prop er ty. It
sin gle spe cies whose mem bers of ten is es sen tial that this en tire string of
dis play con sid er a ble ge net ic va ri e ty. mu ta tions takes place with in the life -
The in di vid u als in any pop u la tion span of on ly a sin gle an i mal.
de ter mine that pop u la tion's ge net ic No ev o lu tion ist bi ol o gist pro pos -
struc ture. In ec o log i cal terms, a pop - es such a chain of mu ta tions, since
u la tion is de fined as a so ci e ty con - the idea is too non sen si cal and il log -
sist ing of mem bers of the same spe - i cal. Instead, they re fer to the con -
cies, spread over a spe cif ic ar ea. cept of pre-ad ap ta tion. By this, they
The re al i za tion that he red i ta ry mean is that fish un der went chan ges
fea tures af fect ed pop u la tions more nec es sa ry for them to live on land
while they were still liv ing in wa ter.

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