IUBio

Anyone Seen Evolution?

Rhiannon Macfie rhi at tattoo.ed.ac.uk
Thu Nov 21 13:28:41 EST 1996


Jeff Bush appears to have typed something along the lines of:


> On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Greg Adcock wrote:

> > Resistance... of hatever sort you like... insects to insecticides,

> Sounds like natural selection, can you expound on that.  How do I know 
>  there weren't a small percent of insects that were resistant to 
> the insecticide to begin with. 

But where did this small percent come from in the first place?


Rhiannon

--

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 Looks quite a bit like Thunderbird Three.
 Which is odd, when all's said and done,
 Because Scott was the pilot of Thunderbird One."

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