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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (25114)	7/21/2000 12:02:37 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 769667

What we lose at a fairly rapid rate are breeds.. That may appear so if you look at species which are going extint today. The Dodo might go, but there are other large birds like ostrige or auk that seem similar. If you look at the great puctuation events whole families of creatures disappear. The trolobites were a varied and dominate species, now gone forever. There is some debate about how closely related birds are to dinosaurs, but essentially dinosaurs are gone forever, thousands of different kinds of dinosaurs, all gone. This is a completely different scale than having the passenger pidgeon dissappear while the rock pidgeon expands. And again with quick breeding. It is a good strategy and used by most insects and to no surprize there are far more kinds of insects than there are other creatures (of comparible or larger size - the fast breeding protosoa and bacteria and algae are also quite successfull). That still doesn't make it the only strategy, quick breeders also mean a large food source for any creature that can take advantage of it. Very few opportunities go unexploited for long. TP

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