Am I missing something here?
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL
>From all accounts, the blue pike was distinct in both appearance and
>habitat from its cousin the yellow pike. However, King said, it is possible
>that the blue pike, while evolving as a separate species, did not have
>enough time to develop a clearly different DNA.
>
>"It was fished out before it had a chance to evolve," he speculated.
>
>King said there were no fish in the lakes at the end of the last Ice Age
>10,000 to 12,000 years ago. If blue pike were a separate species that
>evolved from yellow pike, even 10,000 years might not have been enough
>time for blues to develop a radically distinctive DNA, he reasoned.
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