Re: My chick choices

From: Mary Fisher (mary.fisher_at_zetnet.co.uk)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:55:29 -0000

" Jill." <news@REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:42396f34$0$564$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> Mary Fisher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> rumpless seems exaggerated to me ...
>>>>
>>>> Mary
>>>
>>> I complete agree with exaggerating traits but this is a natural and
>>> very very very old genetic trait
>>> several hundreds of years old
>>> Its a lack of parsons nose -- without which there is little to
>>> attach a tail
>>
>> Sounds like a genetic fault to me.
>>
>> Mary
>
> what is faulty about it if it occured in pretty wild populations in the
> forests where it gave some survival advantag - reportedly?

A norm is admittedly a human concept but if genes result in something such
as blindness in humans or more fingers or toes than is perceived as normal
(there are very many examples) they're regarded as faults and often desired
to be remedied to make the person involved 'normal'.

If there were survival advantages to being tail-less there would be more
examples in the wild because the characteristic would have meant success.

Mary
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