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What snake is it a transition "TO?"
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Nonsensical question. How the hell would ANYONE (except God, perhaps) know what a species was transitioning TO???
Species don't "decide" to transition from a lizard to a snake...that isn't the way it works.
What happens is, a new ecological niche opens up, and individuals which have certain genetic characteristics thrive in this niche. Those genetic characteristics become more and more prominent as those that have them become more and more genetically successful (ie have the most offspring) and eventually they form a new species with which the original can't breed.
Then, down the road, yet ANOTHER ecological niche opens up for THAT species, and on and on.
You've been told this before, of course, yet still you would ask such a nonsensical question...
One would almost think you don't really CARE about scientific facts...
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