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#breeding

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Soh Kam Yung

"The only pair of breeding peregrine falcons in Singapore hatched two chicks in April that fledged earlier in May, which means they are able to fly and leave the nest.

This is the first record of the peregrine falcon – a bird of prey renowned for its speed – having chicks or eyasses in Singapore."

straitstimes.com/singapore/onl

The Straits Times · Only breeding pair of peregrine falcons in Singapore hatch two chicks for first timeThis is the first record of this rare bird of prey having chicks or eyasses in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
#Singapore#Birds#Nature
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Benedikt Haug

8/9 Next to that Pierre is an expert when it comes to soil fungi like arbuscular #mycorrhizal funghi (AMF) but also soil bacteria, he's particularly good at genetically fingerprinting and quantyfing different taxa. I have again learned a lot from him. He has published a lot of work on the crop-soil-microbiome interaction and we'll surely collaborate in the future as I want to integrate #breeding for improved soil-microbiome interaction as a research line in my work at #WUR.

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doboprobodyne

@AlSweigart
Nonsense. Everyone who takes it seriously (!) knows the master-race is a crossbreed of the Fijians and the Gurkhas. Maybe throw in an equal amount of very very clever people from around the world... Are there any gene-pools that churn out very bright problem-solvers? The rest of us are just an evolutionary side-show :P

I wrote the above as a joke of course, but on writing it, I think the problem is that even if people could agree on the traits they wanted in future-humans, and if those traits had some basis in genetics, and if the humans with those genes could be persuaded to interbreed in an orderly fashion, I think most gardeners will agree, sooner or later the future-humans would become inbred and need fresh genetic stock from as different a gene-pool as possible to be brought in to make them (genetically) strong again.

The key take-home to my mind, aside from the notion that we should all try to sleep with more Fijians and Gurkhas, is that we should seek mates who are genetically as far from us as possible, in order to maximise the probability of our offspring being good stock.

I lament that this message is not more widely popular.

I'm not mad enough to know which hashtags go with a post like this, so I welcome any replies with silly hashtags anyone feels able to contribute.

#eugenics#gurkha#fiji
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