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Can mutation and selection increase information?

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05-17-2017 9:42 PM

Reply to: Message 7 by Faith
05-17-2017 8:54 PM

Re: No new information needed

No mutations needed, no extra alleles needed, just the combining of the two-form genes through sexual recombination. (I'm only thinking of sexually reproducing creatures).

But they are there. And you agreed that they are.

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06-11-2017 1:07 PM

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06-11-2017 12:04 PM

Words

But they do reproduce and die. Words are a good analogy and maybe more than an analogy they are actually undergoing evolution. Evolutionary methods are used to uncover language relationships.

Evolutionary linguistics - Wikipedia

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