Would that mean that I could go looking for corns and find a wild Palmetto? I agree with you that genes are a record, but what if there is a morph that would not have happened except for captive breeding? Say there is a morph that occurred, oh 150 years ago in Canada and was bred out and done out by natural selection, but the gene is still there. Then there is a morph from New Mexico with a morph that disappeared in the wild 80 years ago, but is still there. Then in captivity these morphs are brought around again. Then, keeping in mind the Canada version never occurred in New Mexico, ever, and the same for the NM morph in Canada, then in captivity the two morphs are crossed, then a morph that has never been seen before may occur, less of course one is out right dominate over the other.

So I do agree that genes and morphs are a record of the past, but via fictional writing (in this case captive selective breeding), you could create a record that never actually existed until created by the artist/breeder.

I don't know a tonne about the deeper part of genetics but this makes sense to me after re-reading it several times.

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