Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Has anybody read about this study done by Steve O'Brien, David Wildt, and Mitchell Bush?
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade, I haven't read the study (glasses again LOL), but I understand that it was because of a genetic bottleneck that occurred about 10,000 years ago. Supposedly all cheetahs are descended from one female and a small group of males. Coincidentally, there was a study released a couple of months ago that said that all blue-eyed people are descended from a common ancestor 10,000 years ago. Before that, supposedly all people had brown eyes.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
I suggest to a blue eyed Brit that she might be of Turkish decent, and she called me some terrible names, and threw a water bottle at me. As she has no religion, I assumed she would accept Darwins theory. But it was also met with the same response.
Wade
Cheetahs have a very high infant mortality rate today because they are so inbred. They are practically clones of each other, irrespective of gender, and you can do a skin graft between any two without rejection.
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