I spoke with Hubbs yesterday (after he talked with you) and he said he does not dismiss the idea of habitat playing a card in morphology, but the intergrade genes have been present in those populations for so long he doubts the makeup of the area could change from drought cycle to wet cycle today. He feels that some patterns may just not be visible under drought conditions because the populations get reduced for awhile, then bounce back when conditions get better.

He also said that no one really knows where the original kings came from. Blaney's theory is just a theory. for all we know, aliens could have planted all our species on earth millions of years ago and let nature take it's course. We might just be a small interplanetary botanical and faunal garden experiment.

How's that for a theory...as good as anything else...

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