[RML] Fw: Genetics Vs environment
Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:36:58 +1000
> From: peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
> To: Bruce Hansen <bhansen at ozemail.com.au>
> Subject: Re: message for Ron (fwd)
> Date: Saturday, 25 October 1997 8:59
>
> G'day Bruce
>
> > It's not like you to be so pessimistic :-) If I didn't know better I'd
> > think you would like the present stocks of PNG fishes to die out here
so
> > they wouldn't be a possible threat to Oz fish some nebulous time in the
> > future ;-)
>
> Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, what are we going to do with you? Such a ray of
> sunshine...... :-)
>
> > I agree that it is more practicable as long as we can keep an eye on
how
> > they are going for visible phenotype ( God knows how they will be going
> > biochemically and geneticaly) and keep pushing the wild type as the
model
> > ;-)
>
> Agreed.
>
> > I think the whole genetics/deformity and environment/deformity thing
has
> > been made too complex and lends itself to the "guru syndrome".
>
> I dunno, I thought it was pretty simple myself. What's so complex about
> it?
>
> > We stick the
> > poor blood fish in a pokey little tank give them a fraction of the
> > comlexity of environmental requirements that they have evolved to need,
no
> > matter how adaptable they are, and wonder why they don't turn out
"right".
>
> I don't think it is as detailed as that. I doubt many of them have the
> "comlexity of environmental requirements." I think it is more a matter
> of provided clean water and a good diet.
>
> > Perhaps we should be sending this to the list and/or putting this in
> > article form?
>
> Do you have our previous posts or do you think this one (that you just
> sent me) says about everything we've discussed? I don't know/care how we
> should handle this, but we could easily turn it into a rml discussion
from
> which a bit of an article could be produced from. That is probably the
> easiest way to do it. I just threw something together based on our
> discussion (the previous message I just sent you), you wanna add a short
> intro and if you like what you see so far you can post it to the list and
> see where it goes from there.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
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