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Re:Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due t... by formercoder on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:57PM (#29019614)
Seems like the relative death rates of tusked vs tuskless would matter. Remember the 32% is a percent potentially on a small number. Say to an extreme 99% of tusked elephants were killed, 99% of tuskless were unharmed. If tuskless is a genetic traight, it takes over very quickly even though total population size is smaller.
Re:Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due t... by psyfi on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @06:03PM (#29019666)
Exactly that!

I think it is ridiculous to think that more elephant are born without tusks as a kind of "random selection" or even adaption