Bolder-dash writes:
This is a discussion about natural selection including the mutations that are necessary to drive the selection.
Two huge errors of understanding in a single sentence. Dr. Adequate addressed these in his terse response in message 53. First, natural selection does not "include" mutations. Natural selection acts on genetic diversity without regard to how that diversity came about. Second, it is the environment that drives natural selection.
You need a mutation in order to have varying genetic models to choose from.
Not true. Your third error of understanding. There are several mechanisms of evolution that tend to increase genetic diversity in a population (Mayr specifically discusses four). As far as natural selection is concerned, the source of the genetic diversity is irrelevant. Natural selection is the result of genetic diversity when when acted on by the environment in which an organism lives. Natural selection causes the differential reproductive success of those individuals that are most adapted to the environment. Dr. Adequate, in message 54, gives the example of the guppies that evolve differently in different environments.
Is that hard for you to gather?
It's not hard to gather that you are wrong. All it requires is a little bit of effort to learn the basics. Is that too hard?
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