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I appreciate your input deyamorgan. However, by definition, the example provided by antibiotic resistant strains of Staph is evolution. Evolution is formally defined by Audesirk, Audesirk, and Byers (2002) as, "the descent of modern organisms with modification from preexisting life-forms; strictly speaking, any change in the proportions of different genotypes in a population from one generation to the next." (G-9).
Such an example as this would fall into the change in proportions of genotype in subsequent generations. The interaction with the environment is what produces the change. Diversity if what we see as a product of natural selection working on populations of organisms. Those bacteria which were more resistant to the antibiotics are the ones who persisted and were therefore able to reproduce. Evolution is not bound to be only a speciation event which is what most people think of. They are still classified taxonomically as...
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