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David Coppedge, the author of the article linked just below, shows how the concepts of Darwin and his successors fit the "Stuff Happens Law". This law is just as scientific as Darwinism (and the they have some things in common), as he explains after the link.
Not happening here. To find out what Zahn said, the study findings, and the Stuff Happens Law, click on "Natural Selection Is Not Predictable".Every once in awhile, biologists argue over whether evolution is predictable. The latest flap over stick insects sticks up for predictability, but flops.An international group of scientists, publishing in the journal Science, studied stick insects—those long, skinny walking insects that try to blend in with plants by mimicking twigs. In their paper, “Natural selection and the predictability of evolution in Timema stick insects,” they do their best to estimate the trajectory of these bugs. Laura Zahn, however, in a summary of the paper in the same issue of Science, has this to say:
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