I am thinking about your questions but in the meantime could you answer the question I asked first, 'what is a population?'. The definition might be important to the discussion.

I will also raise another question, you say you have been studying those 3 rattlesnake lineages for 20 years but you make a statement about them probably not moving for thousands of years. How can you make such a statement based on only 20 years of observations? Twenty years might not even be long enough for one dominant male to be replaced. Also are these rattlesnakes all the same species or are they three different ones?

I am not saying your research is meaningless, I just think you might not have all that much more evidence for your beliefs than I do for mine.

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