The popular media often portrays evolution as being predictable with a definite goal. For instance, in one
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The popular media often portrays evolution as being predictable with a definite goal. For instance, in one Star Trek Voyager episode, the captain instructs the ship’s computer to extrapolate the “probable course of evolution of hadrosaurs (a bipedal dinosaur) if hadrosaurs had been removed from the Earth before the K-T extinction and allowed to evolve on another planet.
A) Is it theoretically possible to accurately predict the long-term course of evolution? Explain your rationale.
B) What information about the hadrosaurs and their new environment would be useful for making the best possible prediction?
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Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward
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