oh look - an observed gene duplication....

Ok lets see now...(alphabet soup time)...Case one.Two statements:a)Mr Williams is.b)Dr Page is not an idiot.From this we can tell that both Mr W and Dr P exsist and additionslly that Dr P is not an idiot.Case two.Same two statements but the phrase "an idiot" is copied from statement b) and appended to statement a)a)Mr Williams is an idiot.b)Dr Page is not an idiot.From these two statements we can see that both Mr W and Dr P exsist and also that while Dr P is not an idiot Mr W is...Which set of statements do you think contains the most information?[This message has been edited by joz, 11-20-2002]

Decks of cards and poodles?I missed that one but it sounds ammusing, what did he say that time?

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Originally posted by Mammuthus:
His analogies for genetic bottlenecks (which were back assward by the way) used decks of cards "realizing" their diversity and poodles magically turning into St. Bernards

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Hey that last sounds testable....*stomps off looks hard at his pet poodle**Comes back to keyboard*I reckon hes wrong there bud Biscuit (aforementioned poodle) is still small white and fluffy....(Oh and before anyone starts mocking my choice of dog they shouild know that poodles are the only sort of dog my wife is not allergic too, that I keep him close shorn rather than having one of those ridiculous show cuts and that teams of poodles (standards) have raced and completed the Iditarod before the injunction that the teams must be northern breeds exclusively.... Pretty tough for a critter that some regard as being at the shallow end of the gene pool).....