On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:32:04 -0700 (PDT), Michael Ejercito
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>On May 15, 3:46 pm, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B1ackwater) wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT), znuybv <tjwil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >On May 15, 2:03 pm, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B1ackwater) wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:08 -0400, "God's Chosen Person"
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>> >> <baying46...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change,
major stu=
>> >dy
>> >> >shows
>> >> >=B7 90% of damage caused by rising temperatures
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>> >> Tough. Manmade CO2 levels are gonna DOUBLE in about fifteen
>> >> years, not decrease, and nobody is gonna do anything about it.
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>> >> So the widdle fuzzy animals had better find ways to stay cool.
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>> >When I was young, dogs used to shed their hair in warm weather. Have
>> >they forgotten how to do it?
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>> Apparently.
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>> Seems that polar bears can't figure out how to
>> walk on anything but ice either.
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>> Natural selection runs in two parallel paths.
>> For the one path it favors 'specialization' -
>> animals that super-optimize so they can
>> maximally exploit a specific ecological niche.
>> The other path favors non-specialization,
>> omnivorous omniphiles that can live pretty
>> much anywhere on anything.
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> This would mean that there would be very few specialist species
>from one million years ago.
Some of the oldest species on earth are "specialist" species.
Nematodes that live in an environment of sulpher dioxide at undersea
volcanic vents, for example.
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> Michael
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