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timothymarks
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I am in a Botany class (degree reqiurement). I really hate this class, and its professor. The first day of class she lectured for a hour and a half about how religion is a major player in climate change... Anyways on to the fun part of the story. right now she is teaching about genetics, mutation, adaptation etc. So I decided to get off the internet and pay attention because i wanted to set her up. I asked if introducing a non-native species into a ecosystem would be bad or good for the ecosystem. she replie That would be terrible especially if it was a predator. Because then the predator would likely expand with no natural predators and could collapse the entire ecosystem. So I said "Oh you must have been against the introduction of wolves to yellowstone then" BAM liberal explosion... she and several other people started back peddeling and saying that wolves were native until we killed them all. I declared no we introduced a different species of wolve, a wolf that is larger and more aggressive. they tried to argue, didnt work. So I decided to entertain their idea, I said "ok since we settled the west we have been slowly killing off the wolves, and in the 40s we finally killed off the wolves. The animals in the ecosystem have adapted (she calls adaptaion mutation)over the past 100+ years to less and less wolves, and then for 50 years no wolves at all. Then we just throw in several packs and think everything will be ok? This is where she forcfully changed the subject and i got alot of laughter and applause...