Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:32:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jlemon@americantv.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Message-ID: <199705142032.NAA13282@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970514113200.31379d-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at May 14, 97 11:33:26 am
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> 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.
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