>This is not correct. Populations will evolve even if the environment is
>perfectly stable. There are two important reasons why this is so. First,
>a large part of evolution is due to random genetic drift and "environmental
>pressure" is irrelevant for this mechanism of evolution.

I have a follow up question.
Doesn't this suggest that convergent evolution does not exist?

IF  the genetic drift pop and the original pop are both under the same
stabilizing selection - how different would they be?
They are both adapting to the same stable environment aren't they?

Tom (the original)
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