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Old 17-January-2008, 12:14 PM
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Correct.

It can only predict in the general sense in that it can say that adaption will happen, it can't predict how this adaption happens specifically, since a fundamental part of evolutionary theory is that adaption is based on random variations having different probabilities for being passed on.
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