<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Oct 19, 2558 BE, at 3:54 PM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:53 PM, rex </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rex@nosyntax.net" target="_blank">rex@nosyntax.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>But you have yet to provide a single example of selection driving a species<br>
to extinction. Anything less than that is mere hand-waving -- a popular<br>
activity in the social "sciences" -- IMO.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>No, the Irish elk is NOT even a quasi-established example,</blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">If extinct species are not a example or even a quasi-example then it is not entirely clear what you do want. Experiments? </div> </font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just a quick question and observation for the moment:</div><div><br></div><div>How does one actually _know_ how a given species went extinct? With regard to a species like Irish Elk, it's speculation to say large antlers did them in.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>