Well, over the holidays I plan to read Practical Conservation Biology (http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/5034.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and I'm sure that I will have lots of questions... And I thought it might be good to have a place where someone can just ask questions, and see if anyone knows! Ideally this shouldn't be for questions such as 'what do platypuses eat' but more 'what's the genetic result of having a Mainland-island metapopulation structure, compared to a normal metapopulation structure.' But anything's good!
Anyway! Yeah! I'm gunna go read for abit, and I'm sure when I get back I"ll have questions!
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natamambo
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You're as bad as my son - at 10 (Grade 4) he bought a Year 10 maths book from the opp shop and spent the caravanning Christmas holidays working his way through it.
Don't worry, the novelty will wear off and you'll grow up unto a real teenager soon
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Nrg800
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Ohh the video games! I just spend my weekends reading the transcripts of the Royal Commission into the 2009 Bushfires (I'm not even joking)!
I was just wondering though, if Humans are genetically similar, why is there such a visual difference between races?
I was just wondering though, if Humans are genetically similar, why is there such a visual difference between races?
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djb78
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Pretty sure that the differences in races has something to do with the environment in which they live such as skin colour as to where they live. I don't know how certain traits have helped them live in their areas such as islanders being big in size compared to Asian people being smaller, as these types of differences I don't understand.
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The darker skinned races in the hotter environments are supposed to be better able to handle sun and resist sunburn/skin cancer. Same would I guess go for darker eyes as light eyes are more light sensative. Optomitrist confirmation obtained on that one. Daughter ran off in Year 11 and got the 1st year uni Physics book cause it was more interesting than the one they were learning. Last year it proved very usefull while she tutored 1st year uni Physics which she has not done. But her student did well so her self teaching of them both from the book worked. 
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Thinking about it...
My plan over the holidays is to read and UNDERSTAND gouldian genetics....
Give me six weeks and I'll know what a single, double factor is & breeding outcomes...etc..etc..etc...
It's a dream...It could be my 'Sermon on the Mount' experience!
Cheers
Ripley
My plan over the holidays is to read and UNDERSTAND gouldian genetics....
Give me six weeks and I'll know what a single, double factor is & breeding outcomes...etc..etc..etc...
It's a dream...It could be my 'Sermon on the Mount' experience!
Cheers
Ripley
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Or Nathan you could do like my daughter, grow up, meet another mad scientist type, and plan your Honours and Doctorates and miniture mad scientists together. 
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