Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (13180)	5/30/2007 7:04:49 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 36921

The cheetah is officially classified as "vulnerable" and its dramatic decline has resulted in a "genetic bottleneck", when DNA diversity has dwindled to a fraction of its original extent. This is an interesting claim. IIRC, cheetahs are thought to have nearly gone extinct some time ago (some thousand or 10's of thousands of years) and this resulted in a genetic bottleneck which is detectable today. Hence promiscuous reproduction makes very good sense, given that the population as a whole needs to maximise gene swapping.