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<blockquote data-quote="cotjones" data-source="post: 7663532" data-attributes="member: 573988">ORLY? Usure? lets wiki this.ADAPTATION:&quot;An adaptation in biology is a trait with a current functional role in the life history of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection. An adaptation refers to both the current state of being adapted and to the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to the adaptation. Adaptations contribute to the fitness and survival of individuals. Organisms face a succession of environmental challenges as they grow and develop and are equipped with an adaptive plasticity as the phenotype of traits develop in response to the imposed conditions. The developmental norm of reaction for any given trait is essential to the concept of adaptation as it affords a kind of biological insurance or resilience to varying environments.&quot;for the laymen, &quot;The ABILITY TO ADAPT within an member of the population is AN EVOLVED TRAIT.&quot;So yes, you did miss that gem, you missed it in highschool and you miss it now. You are the one who has things backward.&quot;Acquired characteristics&quot; were at one time the hypothesized vehicle for evolution but we are talking in darwin&#039;s days. Long since then has that theory been revised. You are trying to argue with biologists decades ago, not today.The great thing about science it that it follows the most plausible guess until evidence contradicts that guess and requires you to revise it to account for the evidence. The fact is that there is NO truly viable evidence to contradict Evolution. Maybe some individual parts such as the nearest ancestor of a species. But as a whole, the theory and its premises are about as solid as it gets in science, and it&#039;s not enough for a theory to be a good explanation. EVERY hypothesis made on the premise of evolution also proves true.&quot;Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution&quot; -Theodosius Dobzhansky</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cotjones, post: 7663532, member: 573988"] ORLY? Usure? lets wiki this. ADAPTATION: "An adaptation in biology is a trait with a current functional role in the life history of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection. An adaptation refers to both the current state of being adapted and to the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to the adaptation. Adaptations contribute to the fitness and survival of individuals. Organisms face a succession of environmental challenges as they grow and develop and are equipped with an adaptive plasticity as the phenotype of traits develop in response to the imposed conditions. The developmental norm of reaction for any given trait is essential to the concept of adaptation as it affords a kind of biological insurance or resilience to varying environments." for the laymen, "The ABILITY TO ADAPT within an member of the population is AN EVOLVED TRAIT." So yes, you did miss that gem, you missed it in highschool and you miss it now. You are the one who has things backward. "Acquired characteristics" were at one time the hypothesized vehicle for evolution but we are talking in darwin's days. Long since then has that theory been revised. You are trying to argue with biologists decades ago, not today. The great thing about science it that it follows the most plausible guess until evidence contradicts that guess and requires you to revise it to account for the evidence. The fact is that there is NO truly viable evidence to contradict Evolution. Maybe some individual parts such as the nearest ancestor of a species. But as a whole, the theory and its premises are about as solid as it gets in science, and it's not enough for a theory to be a good explanation. EVERY hypothesis made on the premise of evolution also proves true. "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" -Theodosius Dobzhansky [/QUOTE]

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