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Why is 10 million years a blip in evolutionary time when you see the massive chamges that can happen on Islands in 100s of years?
by tdyen 11y ago
Why is 10 million years a blip in evolutionary time when you see the massive chamges that can happen on Islands in 100s of years?
- Synaesthesia 11y agoYou can see some chang s over 100's of years. Nothing as dramatic as this. I wouldn't call 10 million years quite a blip though. But dinosaurs were around for almost 200 million years! Some animals have not evolved much in hundreds of millions of years, like sharks and crocodiles.
- bsder 11y agoYeah, it's a remarkable thing that Homo Sapiens is closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than T. Rex is in time to Stegosaurus.
- whizbee 11y agoIsland animals are often forced to evolve more quickly as a result of far more limited resources. Island animals don't often have the option to migrate to a similarly hospitable environment like mainland animals can.