and don't ask me how they managed it
I'll bet the shepherd was on top.
Polar Bears.
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Re: Polar Bears.
I'll bet the shepherd was on top.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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Re: Polar Bears.
Sod off Min, dump your own rubbish! 
Roy.
According to the Kennel Club ALL dogs are the same species.Clearly a hybrid of two distinct species
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Re: Polar Bears.
Yes. A good example of "artificial selection" according to Richard Dawkins.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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That's a new definition to me Min, accurate as well.
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Re: Polar Bears.
Artificial selection (or selective breeding) describes intentional breeding for certain traits, or combination of traits.The term was utilized by Charles Darwin in contrast to natural selection, in which the differential reproduction of organisms with certain traits is attributed to improved survival or reproductive ability (“Darwinian fitness”). As opposed to artificial selection, in which humans favor specific traits, in natural selection the environment acts as a sieve through which only certain variations can pass.
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Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
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Re: Polar Bears.
Minimalist wrote:Species! Are Great Danes abd Chihuahua different species? Genetically no. HSN HSS? Pass
I got into that discussion on another board some time ago with a guy who was insisting that the skeletal differences between HNS and HSS 'proved' they were different species. I asked one innocent question. "What skeletal differences are those? YOu mean like the differences between modern Watusi and Inuit?"
And the battle was on!
And if you want to send expendable politicians then we have a whole party full of them!
Please! Send them ALL! Send the lobbyists and lawyers, too!!!
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Re: Polar Bears.
This is tap-dancing around the term species to avoid having to use it. A circumlocutionary euphamism at best.According to the Kennel Club ALL dogs are the same species.
As if how they got there outweighed that fact of what they are now.artificial selection
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I used the word species, I see no reason not to...
Roy.
...and that I don't understand.As if how they got there outweighed that fact of what they are now.
Roy.
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