Yes, very odd that the success of single cell organisms would mean that there would continue to be single cell organisms. I mean, look at the success of 4 legs. Surely that would mean that 6 legs are totally passe` and doomed to extinction.
For anyone that actually wants an answer to Sam's idiocy, the reason why there are still single cell organisms is that single cell structures work. A more complex (read "evolved") species that had, say, two cells could still coexist beside the single cell organisms it evolved from. A new species does not automatically have to compete/displace the existing species. In fact, speciation usually occurs due to natural selection involved with forces that would preclude such competition. Like, for instance, a population of animals that colonize a new island in a rare "founder" event and subsequently experience different selection forces and evolve differently than the ancestor species which is still happily doing it's existence thing and evolution thing back on the home range. Cheers, Judah On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not every instance of every organism would have the same mutations. > > Not all mutations would dictate that those without them would perish. > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if life on earth started from one single cell organism in > > the sea. Seems odd that we'd still have single cell forms of life with > all > > this evolution going on. On big happy family. > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > Really Tim its all over the place, > > > > > > start here: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils > > > > > > And what do you mean by missing link? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:369108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
