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JGEORGE
at Thu Jan 19 20:10:01 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JGEORGE ]
Just so you won't think I'm crazy I've thought up a hypothetical scenario:
A population of timber rattlers is comprised of individual which rattle and individuals which don't rattle, or rarely rattle. As people engage in various activities in the area they encounter a snake rattling up a storm....they immediately kill it. The individuals who don't rattle are often unnoticed and have a much higher chance of reproducing. As time progresses the population begins to have more and more individuals who don't rattle.
Granted this is a hypothetical scenario.
Rattling or not would seem to be an inherited genetic trait resulting in a visually observable characteristic. Phenotype?
What do you think?
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