
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


I once saw a study that claimed humans were driving lizard evolution in Brazil. You see, the construction of a new dam formed islands, isolating a population of lizards from the mainland. Within just fifteen years, these lizards had bigger heads and mouths to eat the larger insects on the islands.
But is this evolution? Well, the lizards remained lizards, and none of them gained any new genetic information. All that happened was the lizards adapted to their environment, using the genetic information they already had. This isn’t evolution in action! It’s just adaptation and natural selection.
Yes, it’s lizards producing lizards.
By Ken Ham and Mark Looy4.6
374374 ratings
I once saw a study that claimed humans were driving lizard evolution in Brazil. You see, the construction of a new dam formed islands, isolating a population of lizards from the mainland. Within just fifteen years, these lizards had bigger heads and mouths to eat the larger insects on the islands.
But is this evolution? Well, the lizards remained lizards, and none of them gained any new genetic information. All that happened was the lizards adapted to their environment, using the genetic information they already had. This isn’t evolution in action! It’s just adaptation and natural selection.
Yes, it’s lizards producing lizards.

5,190 Listeners

2,573 Listeners

1,530 Listeners

177 Listeners

1,032 Listeners

3,153 Listeners

2,851 Listeners

5,423 Listeners

5,369 Listeners

1,557 Listeners

2,473 Listeners

954 Listeners

388 Listeners

2,935 Listeners

13,189 Listeners