Whoops ... :-)

> Hence, the very factors which make a creature compete well for
> resources and produce relatively many offspring may be what dooms 
> its
> ancestors to extinction.

"... ancestors ..." should be "descendants" or perhaps, "ancestral 
line.
You knew what I meant.



            Russell


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