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[quote=Anonymous]OP, it seems you want experiments that show one species magically turning into another-as in a fruit fly mutates to a housefly and voila! a new species is created!  That is science fiction and NOT evolution.  Changes in characteristics is what leads to evolution.  Little by little, characteristics change within a population, over several/many generations.  Nature tends to select those characteristics which allow the species to produce more offspring (the whole point of life-to produce more!).  Many time, geographical features play into this, with several different populations developing their own distinct set of characteristics.  Over time, the resulting organism has different enough characteristics that it is no longer the same as its ancestor, and if the two were to mate, no viable offspring would be produced.  Fruit flies are ideal to show these changes because they breed so quickly and we can manipulate their genomes easily.

I am interested as to why you are asking this.  Are you a creationist?  If so, what are your views exactly about how species change?  Or do you not believe they change?  [/quote]

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