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# LOL!
Yeah, stupid Lizards!
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:11, archived)
# I don't know, the tail thing is pretty cool.
How does the ability to jettison one's tail evolve though.

It's kind of a binary thing, one either can jettison one's tail or one cannot.

Being able to nearly jettison one's tail isn't going to help a jot when it comes to survival, so how did it ever come to be that they were able to do it?

Inteligent Design I reckon.


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(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:16, archived)
# It's actually an extremely useful survival tactic.
Birds of prey generally go for the tail as it's the highest point off the ground and the easiest bit to go for. When theyre caught. whe the bird has a hold of its tail they shed it, bird stil thinks its got it, lizard runs off.

Ingenius, if you ask me.
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:17, archived)
# must be intelligent design...
couldn't possibly be that being able to jettison one's tail makes it possible to leave the tail behind with a predator while you bugger off into the distance, thus increasing your chances of survival, could it?

:P
(Barkotron_the_Magnificent, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:18, archived)
# Well, try reading it again.
Then we will discuss.
(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:18, archived)
# Oooh, one little word changes the whole meaning of what you said.
Yes, quite.
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:20, archived)
# it's one of those things which has always bemused me.
Like Giraffe's necks.
(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:23, archived)
# Pffft!
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:21, archived)
# There exists
jumps in continuous variables with random processes governed by laws intrinsic to evolutionary genetics*

AICMFP


* Ruthlessly plagiarised off tinterweb
(I helped save b3ta! Jago Laurens, Tue 7 Feb 2006, 15:21, archived)