http://understory.ran.org/2006/12/14/climate-change-perks/ The Understory is the official blog of Rainforest Action Network. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:33:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://understory.ran.org/2006/12/14/climate-change-perks/comment-page-1/#comment-62053 A T Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:21:47 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2006/12/14/climate-change-perks/#comment-62053 The environmental site is truly neat extraordinary and wonderful. Keep up the great work. The environmental site is truly neat extraordinary and wonderful. Keep up the great work.

]]> http://understory.ran.org/2006/12/14/climate-change-perks/comment-page-1/#comment-55805 Matt Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:28:18 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2006/12/14/climate-change-perks/#comment-55805 But in the world of natural selection - isn't it quite likely that the non-dominant males are less-capable of survival? Thus the gene pool is actually weakened by the increased breeding of less-hardy individuals? I don't know if "increasing diversity" is really the right way to look at it - it seems to my non-geneticist/non-scientist eye this is still problematic to ecosystem diversity and survival rates. But in the world of natural selection – isn’t it quite likely that the non-dominant males are less-capable of survival? Thus the gene pool is actually weakened by the increased breeding of less-hardy individuals? I don’t know if “increasing diversity” is really the right way to look at it – it seems to my non-geneticist/non-scientist eye this is still problematic to ecosystem diversity and survival rates.

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