Re: RC: Re: Re: Amblin/Racking/what ever

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In a message dated 6/22/00 4:28:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Howard4567 
writes:

<< Going back any more than 300 years is a waste of time.  Of course we all 
came from the same well originally.  Horses and people. >>

A great many geneticists would beg to differ--and we are talking origins 
here, anyway, so no matter how much alteration there has been due to 
selection, the origins are still there, and the traits we see now have been 
carefully nurtured and selected out of the original genetic material.  (Just 
because Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal are back there a long way does not mean 
that they are NOT your ancestors, nor does it mean that you don't share a 
great deal of common genetics with them!) 
 
 <<A breed is a group of animals that as a result of selective breeding has 
certain distinguishable characteristics which are passed on through 
successive generations. >>

Certainly.  And a great many of the traits that have been selected in modern 
breeds are still there to a lesser degree in their less specialized 
ancestors--the Arabians!