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I wonder at what point natural selection will start taking effect?

• zecho 15y ago
  Seeing as how moths still fly into flames, it's probably going to be awhile. Anyway, that's a shocking number, but I know it happens. I used to work at a TV station in college and once came out to my car to find a goose head on the hood. The body was a few feet away. It apparently had decapitated itself flying into the cables. My coworkers say it happens quite often during the migrations. They fly into the cables at night. It was a bit disturbing, but made for a good meal!
  • SquareWheel 15y ago
    Whoa, that last line just came out of nowhere.
• hristov 15y ago
  It is wrong to rely on natural selection for animals to adapt to humans. If that is our philosophy pretty soon we will be left with nothing but numerous species of cockroaches, rats and mosquitoes. There are many animals that are well adapted to live with humans but most of them are actually bad for humans. Thus, we have to ensure other species survive if for nothing other than the whole they leave ecosystem will likely be filled by harmful species. For example, the biggest beneficiaries of those millions of dead birds are the mosquitoes and various other insects that are most often food for those dead birds.