Re: Line breeding vs hybridization

From: Lewandjim at aol.com on 2001.07.01 at 15:50:17(6927) In a message dated 6/29/2001 2:39:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, interbnk@terra.com.gt writes: << > If leafcutter ants were the taxonomists, they could say that their fungus +More crop is unknown in nature -- that is, if they defined nature so as to exclude themselves, as we humans generally (and artificially) do. >> Things are really getting out of perspective here. Such a fungus crop is not an altered and hybridized unnatural entity, the ants simply nurture it in a specific locale for their own use. Not all that different from all those gardeners currently enjoying Amorphophallus titanum in captivity. Jim Langhammer

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