Evolution = Money

[Entice]

So let's say you got 1,000 Pekingese dogs and dropped them off in a remote regions of a rainforest, thousands of miles away from civilization. You could scatter them in groups of a few dozen or so. The vast majority of them would die, but a few of them could survive on carrion, insects, and fruit of the forest floor. After a decade or so you could return to the forest and discover the rare and exotic Jungle Pekingese, which would sell for thousands on the exotic pet market.

Obviously this is only one of the thousands of ways you could earn money off of natural selection.

[Scintillating]

Mammals in the wild, culled by the forces of natural selection, tend to get boring colored coats which let them blend in better with their environment. ALL of their traits would, over several decades, become more utilitarian, and they wouldn't look cute or exotic at all. They would look like wild mutts.

Humans have specifically bred dogs with trait selections that wouldn't occur in nature.

[Entice]

At 6/28/13 02:56 PM, Scintillating wrote: Mammals in the wild, culled by the forces of natural selection, tend to get boring colored coats which let them blend in better with their environment. ALL of their traits would, over several decades, become more utilitarian, and they wouldn't look cute or exotic at all. They would look like wild mutts.

Explain to me peacocks

[badfurrykitty]

At 6/28/13 02:57 PM, Entice wrote:

Explain to me peacocks

He's a peacock?! WHAT?

[Entice]

Also camouflage isn't necessarily boring looking

[ManDeep]

By the time you're done you are probably an old man. Thus, kind of pointless.

[Gramiscus]

At 6/28/13 02:53 PM, Entice wrote: So let's say you got 1,000 Pekingese dogs and dropped them off in a remote regions of a rainforest, thousands of miles away from civilization. You could scatter them in groups of a few dozen or so. The vast majority of them would die, but a few of them could survive on carrion, insects, and fruit of the forest floor. After a decade or so you could return to the forest and discover the rare and exotic Jungle Pekingese, which would sell for thousands on the exotic pet market.

Obviously this is only one of the thousands of ways you could earn money off of natural selection.

you might as well just sort through your 1000 pekingese dogs and do selective breeding instead of sending a bunch of dogs to a wasteful death, because within a 10 year period the only kind of evolution you will notice could be obtained by less than a handful of generations of selective breeding

[Scintillating]

At 6/28/13 03:05 PM, Entice wrote: Also camouflage isn't necessarily boring looking

Those dogs do not have fur patterning. They will not suddenly develop it in a human lifetime. Their fur will become dull and boring.

Peacocks use their patterns for attracting mates. It takes millions of years for things like that to evolve. I hope you aren't being completely serious.

[zero-gravity]

You should probably worry more about passing highschool biology before you worry about this.....

jus sayin

[Entice]

At 6/28/13 03:07 PM, Scintillating wrote: Those dogs do not have fur patterning. They will not suddenly develop it in a human lifetime. Their fur will become dull and boring.

Peacocks use their patterns for attracting mates. It takes millions of years for things like that to evolve. I hope you aren't being completely serious.

Is this not a majestic looking animal?

[Gramiscus]

At 6/28/13 03:11 PM, Entice wrote: Is this not a majestic looking animal?

100% death rate in the wild
completely unable to survive on own
no traits promoting predation

[Ejit]

At 6/28/13 03:07 PM, Scintillating wrote: Their fur will become dull and boring.

Predators often develop convoluted patterns over their fur actually. It's not so much camouflage as being disruptive so that a prey animal is less likely to observe them as a cohesive whole, especially in forest and so on. Particularly around the eyes where more extravagant patterns obscure the eyes, praps the most distinguishable feature of a predator.

It would take many generations to occur though.

[19-2000]

At 6/28/13 02:57 PM, Entice wrote: Explain to me peacocks

Done.

[Piper]

Dude, this is hilarious.

[Psycho666]

Invasive Species: A non-native species, with no natural predator, which occupies the habitat of the local animals.

See 'bird-eating snake' turning Guam into a spider infested shithole.

That's not evolution, and neither is your idea, because it is not natural selection, or even natural migration.

[Entice]

At 6/28/13 09:43 PM, Psycho666 wrote: with no natural predator

I'm pretty sure that something in the Congo will figure out how to kill a Pekingese.

That's not evolution, and neither is your idea, because it is not natural selection, or even natural migration.

Once the dogs are released the selection that happens will be natural.

[Gramiscus]

At 6/28/13 10:28 PM, Entice wrote: Once the dogs are released the selection that happens will be natural.

if you release animals into an area where they normally would not have gotten to, they can potentially disrupt the entire ecosystem of the area

it will not promote natural selection in the way you think

[Boomstick]

Or you could make those 1000 dogs fight each other to the death. The last dog that stands should be sent upon to kill its own kind. Then you can speed up the evolutionary chain faster.

[Sensationalism]

At 6/28/13 03:11 PM, Entice wrote: Is this not a majestic looking animal?

Hey a long haired guinea pig!