>My point is that evolution is not solely about change.

My point was that *by definition*, evolution means change.  If no change,
then no evolution has taken place.  One of my favorite animals is the
tadpole shrimp--they have barely changed over tens of millions of years,
and exist in California as a parthenogenic, essentially clonal population.
They evolved early on to successfully exploit a specific niche, and have
apparently had very little selective pressure to change.

> I understand the definition of evolution to be a change in the frequency
of alleles within a population.

Exactly, Todd!  It doesn't make any difference whether that shift was due
to natural selection or that by mankind.

Everyone, let's use our terms properly, rather than wasting so much time
going on about things that we already largely agree upon.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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