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To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (90)	9/13/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 69300

or can they come from anyone? Now you are touching on the realm of punctuated equilibrium. This is the first signifigant advance made to Darwin's original theory of Natural Selection. The goal (and I use that word lightly) of sexual reproduction is to store a wide variety of different genes so that the species can adapt to changes but at the same time prevent the individual members of the species from changing so radically that reproduction between the members is stopped. Gene mixing through sexual reproduction will keep all members of a species more or less centered around a common set of characteristics. The species as a whole is unlikely to change unless the environment becomes such that they cannot reproduce well in their previous average form. TP - (I mean the whole environment, for humans that can be social as well as the house in which they live. For example many flocks of domesticated chickens are entirely white. A chicken with spots will get pecked by other (uncaged) chickens even if it is fit and healthy. The social structure of the chickens is such that spotted chickens don't reproduce).

To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (90)	9/13/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: MikeH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

You must have one hell of a lucky streak to have never met a genetically dumb person. I don't mean retarded, that's a seperate issue, just like club foot. What I mean is this, I had a friend in high school (the Aethiest actually), and he was dating a girl named Jenny. Now, Jenny wasn't very good at school. She failed often, even after doing her homework and studying. So, eventually she dropped out of school. My friend decided he wanted to help this lost little Robin, and since he was working on his GED, he decided to help her get her GED too. They went round and round for weeks, he polished off his GED requirements in two days. Went in, did the tests, got passing grades, and met us at work. Jenny on the other hand, had trouble. She spent 3 hours a night studing, with my friend helping her out. He would go over the basic Alegebra and sentance structure with her, over and over again. Trying to use route memorization to get it into her head. After 6 weeks of this, my friend was getting pretty tired of it. His little robin wasn't learning to fly, and he had come to his wits end trying to help her. I was there for the final straw. Jenny was looking at her primer, and reading studiously. She gets that "Ally McBeal" look of confusion, and kind of squirms like a little girl for a minute. She looks over to my friend, who I was playing cards with. She asks, "Byron, what does illiterate mean?" My friend looked at me, said "Jen, you don't want to know." And we went outside and I let him vent.