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Variation 231
VARIATION ev o lu tion in his book The Origin of
Species.
Variation is a term used in ge net -
According to Darwin, for ex am -
ic sci ence, and con cerns the emer -
ple, farm ers mat ing dif fer ent var i a -
gence of dif fer ent va ri e ties, or spe -
tions of cow in or der to ob tain
cies. This ge net ic phe nom e non caus -
breeds with bet ter yields of milk
es in di vid u als or groups with in a
would even tu al ly turn cows in to an -
giv en spe cies to pos sess dif fer ent
oth er spe cies al to geth er. Darwin's
fea tures from oth ers. For ex am ple,
idea of lim it less change stemmed
all hu man be ings on Earth pos sess
from the prim i tive lev el of sci ence in
es sen tial ly the same ge net ic in for ma -
his day. As a re sult of sim i lar ex per -
tion. But thanks to the var i a tion po -
i ments on liv ing things in the 20th
ten tial per mit ted by that ge net ic in -
cen tu ry, how e ver, sci ence re vealed a
for ma tion, some peo ple have round
prin ci ple known as ge net ic ho me o sta -
eyes, or red hair, or a long nose, or
sis. This prin ci ple re vealed that all
are short and stocky in stat ure.
at tempts to change a liv ing spe cies
Darwinists, how e ver, seek to por -
by means of in ter breed ing (form ing
tray var i a tion with in a spe cies as ev -
dif fer ent var i a tions) were in vain,
i dence for ev o lu tion. The fact is,
and that be tween spe cies, there were
how e ver, that var i a tions con sti tute
un breach a ble walls. In oth er words,
no such thing, be cause var i a tion
it was ab so lute ly im pos si ble for cat -
con sists of the emer gence of dif fer -
tle to evolve in to an oth er spe cies as
ent com bi na tions of ge net ic in for ma -
the re sult of farm ers mat ing dif fer -
tion that al ready ex ists, and can not
ent breeds to pro duce dif fer ent var i -
en dow in di vid u als with any new ge -
a tions, as Darwin had claimed
net ic in for ma tion or char ac ter is tics.
would hap pen.
Variation is al ways re strict ed by
Luther Burbank, one of the
ex ist ing ge net ic in for ma tion. These
world's fore most au thor i ties on the
bound a ries are known as the gene
sub ject of ge net ic hy brids, ex press es
pool in ge net ic sci ence. (See The Gene
a sim i lar truth: "there are lim its to
Pool.) Darwin, how e ver, thought
the de vel op ment pos si ble, and these
that var i a tion had no lim its when he
lim its fol low a law." 268 Thousands of
pro posed his the o ry , and he de -
267
years of col lect ive ex pe ri ence have
pict ed var i ous ex am ples of var i a tion
shown that the amount of bi o log i cal
as the most im por tant ev i dence for
change ob tained us ing cross-breed -
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