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Which came first, the Green Ash or the White Ash species
What prompted this question? Well recently I bought some lumber of white
ash, plus hickory plus white oak and various others. I do not believe the data on strength of wood is accurate and am wanting to test these woods myself. I believe oak is stronger than hickory. I believe the strength of hickory is a sales hype. The reason I say this is because in history trebuchets were built out of oak and not hickory even though England had hickory species and ash species. And because the growth pattern of oaks allows horizontal branches which means the wood has to be tougher and stronger to grow horizontal. I also want to test spruce for strength because a spruce bears the full force of wind so its wood must be strong. But the question that rose in my mind is whether GreenAsh came first in geologic history or whether WhiteAsh and which mutated and gave rise to the other? I accept Darwin Evolution theory only as a algorithm or rule and not as a theory. Let me call it the Darwin-Evolution-Rule. So according to that Rule, which of the ashes existed first? Was it GreenAsh that mutated to create the WhiteAsh species or vice versa? If I had to guess I would say the WhiteAsh came first and gave rise to the GreenAsh and I would guess that because the GreenAsh has a wider range of habitat. Because in the Rule of its survival of the fittest it is less likely for a species to give rise to a weaker species that thence increases its range of habitat. Based on *likelihood*. Question: what is in the genetics of GreenAsh that it can live where-ever WhiteAsh lives and then some more? Is it that GreenAsh is less picky as to pH soil conditions? Is it that GreenAsh can take wind better than WhiteAsh? Is it that GreenAsh can survive with less water? So I wonder if a Genome project can be run on GreenAsh and WhiteAsh and whether the genome can date whether GreenAsh was a mutation of WhiteAsh and has now become the dominant ash species? I am thinking that DNA is a fossil record itself and can tell us which species of two contending species came first. And this DNA dating is very important for the human species itself in that it can tell us that Stonethrowing came before bipedalism and created bipedalism. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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