Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

[Bemmzim]

In a message dated 8/26/2004 1:07:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:
If a conquered community's offspring were mostly procreated by one man or 
one man and his immediate relatives, wouldn't this reduce the genetic 
diversity of a population and thus result in an evolutionary disadvantage
Well if an entire population had a single male or he and his immediate 
offspring yes diversity would go down but this would not happen. Too many tribes, 
too much mixing (if only by killing). Remember is some bird and mammal species 
one male can be the parent of most of the offspring in a community (species 
with harems like silver back gorillas, sea lions etc, lechting species of birds 
like Peacocks). So one males genes may come to dominate a local population but 
then of course in these species there is cheating and rape to keep things well 
mixed up. 
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