Natural Selection

I am not sure of the answer and not a specialist in genetics but if there were not such things as "linkage groups" or what is the final cause (in Aristotle's sense) of these relations associated with chromosomes one would be one the way to an acutal answer. Transposable elements may be a place to begin an elboration of solution on which the structure would also have to be afforded no matter the placement of the mutation inside or outside this picture. But by this sentence I get a litte bit into speculation and not what is already being taught.

I had read any of this space as a chemical "acridine" and never a form of empirical geometry. My reading here may be out of date.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by William E. Harris:
[B]Percey,The following are comments on your responses 1, 3 & 4.
1. Does anyone have information on the number of genes in the first protozoan ancestor of Homo?[/QUOTE][/B]I wouldn't know WH, but Stu Kaufmann once told me He could calculate the total # metabolic species in a given organism and if as kids are taught protenomics these days it is not unlikely given this motivation that someone would claim both to know this ancestor and assert how many genes (within a range) it came to be thought in. I doubted Kaufmann then, except for the astonishment of the Chemists at Cornell, so I would likely do the same if this came out today as you request.