(urth) Plant/Animal

[Jeffery Wilson clueland.com]

On 9/17/2014 8:57 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:

>     The tale of the origin of Hieros is twisted and confused. But I
>     think there is an implication that
>
>     they are ultimately derived from human stock.

Do you mean literally the vanished Hieros, whom are only referred to but 
are said to be the orignal human race ascended beyond the cycle of 
bang-gnabs, or the Hierogramates, who were uplifted from the 
unintelligent life outside the earth by the vanished Hieros and in turn 
made the other Yesodis? Almost certainly some of the Hieros are in the 
'gramates woodpile, IMO.

> There is a term I now
>     forget,  in animal husbandry
>
>     which describes taking extreme variants and rebreeding them with the
>     original stock for genetic
>
>     robusticity. I kinda think that may be what Wolfe is getting at here.
>

"Hybrid vigour" works with any diverse genepool to produce breeds with 
the best qualities of previous lines while hopefully lacking their 
weaknesses.


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