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Yes it can ßelals Girl Send a noteboard - 06/08/2011 07:41:59 PM
Even if you can only measure it after the fact, that doesn't mean it cannot be "predicted or tested."

You can't KNOW, or ACCURATELY predict ANYTHING that has never been tested before, but you can make predictions, do tests, and study the results. This would apply to determining whether a new trait is beneficial for a population of organisms as much as it would to anything else in science.
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