Re: Did dinosaur wings evolve for breeding display?

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Subject: Re: Did dinosaur wings evolve for breeding display?
From: John Conway <john.a.conway@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:30:53 +0100
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Roberto Takata wrote:

Well, competition within species is *natural selection*
More properly: intraspecific competition leads (or could lead) to
natural selection.

... and decent with modification, surely? I don't understand your distinction here.

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