Re: RC: DNA testing update

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/8/00 10:38:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com writes:

<< The current estimate is that the horse was domesticated 5-6000 years ago,
 and the oldest breed records we have go back to about 300 years ago. Horse
 breeds are not "diverged populations" in the terms of this technique.>>
 
 In other words, breeds simply are not sufficiently dissimilar genetically 
for 
 us to be able to tell them apart by available DNA techniques.
 
 Heidi >>


Which leads you to wonder how breeders can possibly think they are dealing in 
:"genetics" at all.

ti