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felipe
at Mon Nov 10 23:12:29 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by felipe ]
Hi, your explaination of the decreasing breeding size of wild retics is very interesting and seems logical. But, I also beleive in "Nature vs. Nurture".
Geographical isolation has exposed different environmental stress factors on the different inusular populations. These populations must adapt or become extinct. Over many generations at some point these "adaptations" may become genetic. This process takes a very long time. If these animals are not reaching their full growth potiental due to human population, that is an environmental factor, not genetic. I'm not a biologist, but I would not be suprised if future studies document many morphological differences.
It will take some time for human influences to affect the genetic growth potiential of p. reticulatus in Indonesia.
This is just my view. I don't know if I made any sense.
Thanks,
Phil
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- Kayuadi - ElapheDK, Thu Nov 6 13:10:06 2003

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