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wolves

Any of several large carnivorous mammals of the family canidae usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the northern hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.


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Re: Increasing Information For Genetic Algorithm

... If the selective pressure is lifted, that result in diversity. For example, phenotypic diversity of dogs as compared to little diversity in wolves. If the selective pressure is applied to a diverse population, those that survive establish new race, etc. I agree, the paragraph I wrote is ...

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by Rap
Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:39 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Increasing Information For Genetic Algorithm
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Re: Increasing Information For Genetic Algorithm

... If the selective pressure is lifted, that result in diversity. For example, phenotypic diversity of dogs as compared to little diversity in wolves. If the selective pressure is applied to a diverse population, those that survive establish new race, etc. The latest genetic data from experiments ...

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by Cat
Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:20 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Increasing Information For Genetic Algorithm
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Re: Evolution or De-evolution?

... exposed through domestication and breeding, then it was there, Nature had not eliminated it - you just didn't ever get to see it. 2/ Black fur in wolves is thought to be a trait from domesticated dog.

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by Crucible
Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:14 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution or De-evolution?
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Re: what causes enlarged small-groups to break up?

... the group size upper limit is reached. Anyway, as far as I remember, this applied to truly "social" mammals, such as apes, monkeys, wolves and such - species in which all individuals really "know" each other and function as a unit, not just hang around in large groups. ...

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by biohazard
Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:45 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: what causes enlarged small-groups to break up?
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Re: what causes enlarged small-groups to break up?

Have you ever heard of a pack of wolves, meercats, spider monkeys, chimps, gorillas, howler monkeys, lions, elephants, etc. living in five hundred to thousand individual size groups or shall we say herds? All of them and a mass of other such ...

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by charles brough
Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:53 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: what causes enlarged small-groups to break up?
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