RE: Peppered moths

Donald Frack (dcfrack@sowest.net)
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:39:40 -0800

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> >> 3. We do not know why the moths shifted to darker morphotypes
> >
> >Morphotypes? Is pompous prose requesite mode here? Would not a
> >pedestrian word suffice, such as "shade" or "color"?
> >
>
> So, not adverse to snapping at your friends as well. You are just all
> around plain mean, you know that?

A morphotype is the external appearance of phenotype, which is the physical
form of a genotype, which is ... where was I?

Don Frack

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