From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 13:39:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03242 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 13:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA03235 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 13:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA13282; Wed, 14 May 1997 13:32:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705142032.NAA13282@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:32:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jlemon@americantv.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at May 14, 97 11:33:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Actually, I was more interested in "tectogenetics". I used to have a lot > of friends in geology, so I'm seeing a whole new field for all my old > buddies who are now hanging out in the Nevada desert. :-) It's large scale genetic drift across lines of speciation because of common evolutionary pressures acting on everybody. For your friends in the desert, this would be the drift in the animals that had ancestors who were around back when they lived on the shores of Lake Bonneville, the decendents of which are now desert critters. Of course, it could be an artifact of the asteroid theory of the dinosaur extinction. ;-). The first mention I ever saw was (I think) Theodore Sturgeon (who was the biologist who came up with the theory of "punctuated equilibrium"? It was T.S., right?). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.