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as yardstick to determine whether we had succeeded or failed. Such objectives could be simple like producing chickens with straight comb. Or
complex like combining different fighting traits to produce roosters with
power, speed, flight and shuffle--attributes that might be opposites but
might yet converge in a bloodline. Without essential knowledge or if we
are ignorant of genetics we will not know how to start toward our goal,
or we will not even be able to formulate a goal. B