Breakdown

T-day is goin' rock!!! I'm hangin' with my sons....having the Lighto traditional Polish sausage and kraut dinner (what??? ya didn't know the Pilgrims were Polish??? little known fact.. :-)) Thankful for so much...Happy T-day to all the Squirrels

Love,
Lighto

I have been thinking about bottlenecks moments where an occurrence happens causing an all most extinction stopping of the evolutionary process, example the Permian extinction killed off enough forms of animals thus allowing the rise of the reptile to dinosaurs or
The Toba explosion on Sumatra that sent the earth into an ice age and killing off 1000,000 breeding couples to 1,000 breeding couples
The black plague of Europe after losing one quarter of its population thuse that surviv have developed an immunit systen against a wider set of illnessses then pre black death.
The new world Indians at 19 million people ten years after western settlement 19 thousand I wonder if on can include man made bottle necks as the Holocaust in Poland 13 million Jews by wars end 350.
What I find interesting is that at he bottle neck destroys so much variation in DNA just by the numbers that it kills yet those surviving the bottleneck seem to develop greater differences sooner then one would expect. Those that survive bottlenecks are not the strongest What I keep playing with if evolutionary process might adapt to the situation to ensure having enough breeding couples (my critical mass belief–a group in order to move forward needs enough bodies in case having to few the line dies out do due not having enough bodies to deal with natural or sudden deaths plague. (I never think of evolution as responding to a shortened more intense period of time.

Grand Funk Railroad

Challenge #11 - a reflection

Please share with everyone the beauty you find in a reflection . Add your post** (painting, photograph, poetry, prose, sculpture, video, or whatever) as a reply in this thread. Your post should spotlight only a reflection, or it should clearly have a reflection as the central point. To start with, let's have each member do only a single post. If there is too much beauty for only one post, then after a few days feel free to add more.

** Be sure to include credits/sources if applicable.

So I asked the Asian woman behind the counter the other day at the grocery, "What is this exactly?" thinking she would let me in on the secret-and she would say something like "Oh it's not really 'pudding' as we know it but it's just a rich dense cake that the English make and eat at Christmastime and it's exactly like fruitcake you get in the States so don't bother but it would make a nice gift for a British friend."

Instead she said "It's a pudding and it has nuts and dried fruits in it." I said "Oh, okay, thanks." ;-) ;-)

Can someone describe it to me without using the word "pudding"?

We are not kids.At our ages we all have experience in the subject called life.We get together here and share that very subject.If I take ten of you in a room show you a elephant then ask you to describe it I ll get ten different answers describing the same thing.So it is with life.Your mountain may well be my mole hill.A group such as this one is rich with knowledge a wise and wonderful thing PMOM

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