dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (04/19/85)
This question was asked long ago. > [Andrew Koenig] > I have seen this question before on this newsgroup, > but no answer, so here goes again: > > If there was a world-wide flood, which survived: > salt-water fish or fresh-water fish? I don't know what the scientific accuracy of the following is, but it might be of interest to some. "[S]alt-water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to live in fresh water; and, according to Valenciennes, there is hardly a single group of fishes confined exclusively to fresh water, so that we may imagine that a marine member of a fresh-water group might travel far along the shores of the sea, and subsequently become modified and adapted to the fresh waters of a distant land." Charles Darwin, _On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_ (A Facsimile of the First Edition). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1964, 384-385. One question, of course, is what exactly does "slowly" mean? -- | Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+-- | "Danger signs, a creeping independence" |