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I'll try not to draw analagous conclusions here.
March 22, 2006
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sinister secret of snail's escape
Presumably if left-handed marine snails became more common, crabs would eventually evolve apparatus or techniques for eating them, and their advantage would disappear.But that cannot explain why in some populations they persist only in extremely low proportions, about 1%, or why in others they have gone extinct; other factors must be at play.
Sinistral snails apparently find it much harder to find a mate, and so may be doomed to remain rare or die out completely, whether or not they evade can-opening crabs.
Although I have to say that the headline writer at the BBC News is totally high. There's nothing SINISTER about the secret. Unless you consider lefties to be SINISTER. What is going ON there in the jolly old?
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I think it's a play on the Latin word for left. What's more alarming to me (sinister, even) is the notion of crabs having the ability to open cans. If they can do that, what can't they do?
dude, I totally need to work on my etymology! Still...it doesn't make any sense! I mean, if you are going to get all fancy with the Latin roots, it needs to at least make SENSE. Right?