The problemw with this argument is the notion that all animals coming from the wild are going to be "pure" to begin with and thus, all have the same dna, but the study on obseleta showed that the clades do not run with the "sub-species" but rather run in line (up and down) from north to south. Thus, yellow rats in the same line as gray and black from that line are more genetically related than yellows from another line in the north/south clades, so that blows the "sub-species" thus "pure" argument all to heck. Further, the notion that hybrids should only go to f1 is counter-intuitive. First, we know they wont as people willbreed further in selection and secondly, the whole point to me is not to make "something that looks cool", but to study the dynamics of the genome of these so-called "genus and species" (which oddly enough and quite against Linaean system can produce fertile offspring). Finally, even further, I do agree that just taking the hybrid, say, back to corn and masking it as a corn, the real point in the hobby should be to create domestic lines of animals that look differently than either (any) of the parent types, and thus are as distinguishable from the "parent species" as a cochin is from a red junglefowl in the junglefowl/domestic fowl group.

BDR

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