Nerd Rats

From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 27 14:20:53 1998

Curious. I am wondering what would happen if such a thing were
actually done. It would probably make a bunch of rats with identical
times,at which point the experiment would be over. It would be
interesting what the gender spread would be in such a case.
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>Thought y'all might be amused by this tidbit from another list:
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>"This reminds me of something I heard about earier this month. It
seems
>some researchers decided to create a breed of super-intelligent lab
rats
>by the simple process of artificial selection: in each generation, only
>the rats who were the fastest at solving mazes would be bred.
>
>Result: After seven generations, the researchers had created a colony
of
>rats who were clumsy, near-sighted, antisocial, and totally inept in
their
>dealings with the opposite sex."
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