Hello everyone On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:11 AM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <[email protected]> wrote: > Quote , Dan. > Dan: > You're talking about selective breeding, not natural selection. In > fact, selective breeding leads to a species being less able to adapt > to changes, less able to fight off illness and infections, and more > prone to genetic diseases. Charles Darwin wrote about this > extensively. He told a story about how an animal breeder informed him > the quickest way to alter a animal was to cross-breed it with its > sister or brother, or to back-cross it with a mother or father. But > this ultimately leads to a weaker species. > > So no, while on the surface it may seem we have altered evolution by > selective breeding, we have in fact effectively bred Dynamic Quality > out of the equation. By determining what traits we select for, the > Dynamic freedom exhibited in the wild is lost. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Perfect. > > Incestual crossbreed brings out the best unknown traits in the offspring. > But!!, it will also bring out the worst case scenario's.The number of bad > mutations will spice up real far.The Jack Wattley discus fish is a good > example of incestual breeding and crossing back. > Perfect results for in a fish tank, no changes of survival in the nature. > Nature will filter them back out if tried. > > Or try the Pigeon blood discus as example, or the Malboro's or the > leopards,or the 'degen-discus', changeless in nature,...(visability for > predators.) > > Same goes for Koi really, most are very beautiful, but taken back to nature, > the visability for predators is simply to high.And they lost the ability to > protect themselves to cancer mostly. > > Think of the Orchid hybrids(F1 Hybrids), Maize,(F1 Hybrids)...chanceless > outside a controlled monoculture. > The breeders are clever,However, they kill immediatly all results that are > unwished,and mostly will deny it. > > > But i do have to say, the field Ian is coining,Epigenetics, is a very > interesting and promising field.But a change and a modification,will almost > never become a mutation. > Checked it out in the Kew gardens dbase.solid. good field.
Hi Adrie Yes, epigenetics is very interesting, I agree. From what I understand, it is a process by which environmental influences alter inherited traits without altering the DNA. It is (currently) viewed as complementary to natural selection. Good stuff, Adrie. Thank you. Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
