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Researchers solve mammoth evolutionary puzzle: The woollies weren't picky, happy to interbreed
McMaster University ^ | May 30, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 05/30/2011 5:45:00 PM PDT by decimon

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1 posted on 05/30/2011 5:45:02 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Pulling the wool ping.


2 posted on 05/30/2011 5:45:52 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
suggesting it mated with a completely different and much larger species.

Larger? And, sure, species interbreed all the time. (E.g. Muslims and goats) What was this guy smoking?

ML/NJ

3 posted on 05/30/2011 5:49:34 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: decimon

Sluts.


4 posted on 05/30/2011 5:51:22 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: decimon

Giamo Casanunda, please call the office!


5 posted on 05/30/2011 5:57:33 PM PDT by Grut
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To: decimon

What’s that great line from Ice Age II, Meltdown? “You aint go’in to save the species tonight or any night.”


6 posted on 05/30/2011 6:03:30 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: decimon

Feh, I’m just glad they’re gone. We would have to go back to 4-bore rifles


7 posted on 05/30/2011 6:06:36 PM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: decimon

Questions are popping up about how they did it ~ so undoubtedly SOMEBODY had to stand on a tree trunk!


8 posted on 05/30/2011 6:11:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: decimon

They were both Mammoths so they were not different species, they were variations of the same species.


9 posted on 05/30/2011 6:13:31 PM PDT by calex59
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To: decimon
The woollies weren't picky, happy to interbreed

I can relate.
10 posted on 05/30/2011 6:13:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: muawiyah; decimon

Or, of course, one of them could stand partway in a hole in the ground: http://being.publicradio.org/programs/whalesongs/images/ss_kneeling.jpg


11 posted on 05/30/2011 6:16:23 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: decimon
it mated with a completely different and much larger species.

The big question for Evolution is how does one species give rise to another species. And central to that is "what is a species?" A poodle can breed with a labrador -- no big deal, they are the same species. A poodle with a persian cat? Much more challenging.

But evolutionists like to change their thinking based on what is convenient. A mammoth breeding with a completely different species? [shrug] Sure. Why not? [/s]

12 posted on 05/30/2011 6:19:47 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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I don’t the smaller mammoths had much choice in the matter as to whether they wanted to interbreed with the bigger ones.


13 posted on 05/30/2011 6:25:31 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: muawiyah

Well there was a rumor going around the circus that the dwarf and the elephant were lovers. (Tim Conway)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY&feature=related


14 posted on 05/30/2011 6:28:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: decimon
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw. Had two big horns and a wooly jaw. Wooly bully, wooly bully.


15 posted on 05/30/2011 6:29:35 PM PDT by hellbender
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Regarding Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 you should read several of the analyses done by others as well as the entire case.

In Randolph the guy lived there. The woman had clearly moved out and had, in fact, GONE TO CANADA.

If you want to apply this case to the situation in Indiana note that the woman lived there and the guy had got his stuff and moved out!

The USSC ruled in favor of the occupant who lived there ALONE ~ as would they rule in favor of the woman in this case because she lived there ALONE.

16 posted on 05/30/2011 6:30:44 PM PDT by muawiyah
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The Woolies weren’t Picky, happy to interbreed.

So was Obama’s Mama.


17 posted on 05/30/2011 6:31:39 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: decimon
Goodness. This is one "ivory-tower" (so to speak) theory they might actually be able to test, in a sort of "Pleistocene Park" scenario:

Extinct Woolly Mammoth May Be Resurrected by Scientists

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/woolly-mammoth-resurrected-scientists/story?id=12646477

18 posted on 05/30/2011 6:39:19 PM PDT by hellbender
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The Woolies weren’t Picky, happy to interbreed.

So was Obama’s Mama.

Obama's mama interbred with what?

19 posted on 05/30/2011 6:48:45 PM PDT by decimon
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But evolutionists like to change their thinking based on what is convenient. A mammoth breeding with a completely different species? [shrug] Sure. Why not? [/s]

But without being able to tell if they did breed or not (and whether the offspring were fertile), scientists can only guess whether they were different species or just subspecies. Sure a poodle and a persian cat are different species, but could a scientist tell whether a poodle and a wolf are different species with only a couple skeletal examples of each? And one might be laughed at for suggesting that a St. Bernhard and a Chihuahua are the same species just from looking at their skeletons.

20 posted on 05/30/2011 6:55:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
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