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From: pratt@vanhalen.rutgers.edu.UUCP
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Subject: 4- and 5- leaved clovers: evidence for environmental disturbance?
Message-ID: <1341@vanhalen.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 15:05:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 15:05:48 1987
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: mutations, radioactivity, stern physics lab
Xref: utgpu junk:5831 sci.bio:602 junk:5832

Hmm...Just now on my way past our "Stern Physics Laboratory" here at
Rutgers, within the space of 30 seconds I found one 4- and two 5-leaved
clovers.  This got me to thinking about how once somebody told me that
such mutations (?) were evidence of impurities in the environment,
perhaps radiation.  Is this true?  I know that we can conclude a lot
about the environment from studying animal populations.  Is there any
evidence that a layman can recognize (like these clovers perhaps)
for environmental disturbances?

Musingly,

   Lorien Pratt
   pratt@paul.rutgers.edu