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  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

>          Adapt to what? Every animal is adapted to niche. A jaguar will 
> not adapt to eat grass. 

Common Descent means that the common ancestor to the jaguar and the
goat did adapt to eat one or the other.

The goat eats grass, the jaguar eats meat... what did their LCA eat?

> There is a niche in nature.

And the better adapted to that niche, the more vulnerable to changes.

The better matched to a niche, the more likely a population will go
extinct if changes are introduced.



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