h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ahh . . . it's not like Gnomon to show such vindictiveness as it seemed with that part missing.

"Adapted to" has unfortunate connotations (they adapted to the predators doing new things?) -- could you just say "they adapted, first becoming faster runners, then climbing trees"?

Text currently reads "Anoles in the Bahamas were observed after the deliberate introduction of curly-tailed lizards and were found to become better adapted firstly to running fast, then at climbing trees."

I think that should be OK, but I can attempt further disambiguisation (unobfuscationism).

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Sorry to pick at it, but this returns to what I first found bothersome: "adapting to" -- to me that suggests something *in the environment* to which an organism adapts.

Hi Recumbentman,

Sorry, your reply slipped past me for a while. Now reads:

"Anoles in the Bahamas were observed after the deliberate introduction of curly-tailed lizards. The introduction of this new predator was followed by the anoles firstly becoming faster runners, then better climbers. This is regarded as being an example of natural selection in action."

I'm trying to avoid using the word 'caused', as that would be a deduction not an observation.

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That looks fine to me Gif

Changed to caps to neaten up GuideML.

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Unsubtle bump.

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Still looks fine to me . . . small niggle in the "Conclusion":

"It is clear that, at least with regards to the last few years, the weight of scientific evidence has been overwhelmingly - indeed virtually exclusively - in favour of evolution."

Something awkward about "with regards to" -- isn't that "with best wishes"? I'd omit it and say:

"It is clear that the weight of scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of evolution."

Hi Recumbentman,

You're right, that was a hugely clunky sentence. Don't know what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Have changed it to read "It is clear that over this period the weight of scientific evidence has been overwhelmingly in favour of evolution."

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Wa-hey! Who says the standard of entries is going down?

I think you will find all my entrys are like this!!!!

Like post 34, you mean -- wired to the moon, disconnected from the world?