Re: Evolution Basic Questions



"Darwin123" <drosen0000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8550b204-466a-4f0e-81aa-6b7ac65157ea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I think that those breeds bred for general functions are most
likely to survive the extinction of mankind. A dog that is bred to
sniff bombs is more likely to use this skill in the wild than a dog
that is bred to twitch his nose. It may not be a bomb that he sniffs,
but there will be something the dog needs to find.

More likely the mongrels will survive.

Their gene pool is sufficiently diverse and flexible that they won't have to worry about becoming extinct through overspecialization.

Where I live, we don't have stray dogs, but we do have plenty of feral cats. And guess what, they don't look like specialized breeds at all. That ship has sailed. These feral cats, descended from generations of feral cats, are quite big, aggressive, and stealthy--almost like the wildcats they descended from thousands of years ago.



-- Steven L.



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