>>Just so you won't think I'm crazy I've thought up a hypothetical scenario:
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>>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.
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>>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?


Possibly.....Kinda like the thought of line breeding for hardy feeders....Feeding is a visual act, but it isn't expressed all the time....nor is rattling or not rattling....Typically they don't rattle unless threatened...If a tree falls in the forest does anyone hear it?.......It is certainly in their genetic makeup but I still don't think it's a phenotypical expression.......
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John Lassiter
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