[Elsie]

In China, researchers recently discovered that tuskless elephants now make up 5-10% of the wild population whereas they used to be 2-3%.

They postulate the cause for the increase is that the tusked elephants are being culled for their ivory.

postulate = guess

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I guess if you had a WILD group of 10,000 and of those 200-300 were tuskless, and then the Ivory hunters went in and 'harvested' 6000 of the ones WITH tusks, leaving about 4000 WILD ones; then, of COURSE the 'percent' would go up, and having NOTHING to do with your sacred 'theory' at all!

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I guess if you had a WILD group of 10,000 and of those 200-300 were tuskless, and then the Ivory hunters went in and 'harvested' 6000 of the ones WITH tusks, leaving about 4000 WILD ones; then, of COURSE the 'percent' would go up, and having NOTHING to do with your sacred 'theory' at all!

Actually, it has everything to do with the theory of evolution. That is how natural selection works.

How did you think it worked?

[b_sharp]

"I guess if you had a WILD group of 10,000 and of those 200-300 were tuskless, and then the Ivory hunters went in and 'harvested' 6000 of the ones WITH tusks, leaving about 4000 WILD ones; then, of COURSE the 'percent' would go up, and having NOTHING to do with your sacred 'theory' at all!

This same math proves our theory. Cycle this calculation through a few times making sure to include births of tuskless elephants and you will find the percentage of tuskless to tusked goes up. Eventually all that will be left are those elephants without tusks. Even if the 'tuskless' gene is recessive, all members will become homozygous for that allele.