Rajan and Food

Jerry Friedman · 29 Apr 2009, 03:07 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:07:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Rajan and Food
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--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Brian Lovely <brian at studiobl.com> wrote:
...

> Crossbreeding.  The corn that Horn seeks on the Whorl.  The
> underwater
> greenhouses, the strange doubling of limbs that many
> creatures on Blue
> exhibit.  I read somewhere in the list a theory about
> polyploidy something
> or other--some biology that I don't know anything
> about--but the upshot was
> that you can cross corn in such a way that the genetic
> pattern is
> doubled...something like that.  More to the point, like
> beasts with eight legs.
...

I hope you read my response, pointing out that polyploid
animals don't have double the usual number of limbs.

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Jerry Friedman

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