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To: Soliton
Impossible! Nat. Geo. says a big asteroid took’em down or maybe it was super sized volcanoes and climate change or something, anything.
4 posted on 07/23/2008 4:28:35 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
You do realize that those are not mutually exclusive, right? Lack of diversity makes a population vulnerable to stressors that might normally be survivable.

Conversely, the vulnerability of the population can lead to greater evolutionary diversity.

A Real Live Case of a Darwin Fish?

5 posted on 07/23/2008 4:41:57 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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