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Author Topic:   Genetic Redundancy and Natural Selection
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Message 19 of 37 (565213)
06-15-2010 3:04 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by BobTHJ
06-15-2010 2:36 PM


You mean, other than the irreducible complexity I eluded to above?
Can you show that the SRC system has always been irreducibly complex? If not, you really don't have a case.
Herman Muller figured out IC almost 100 years ago.
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Most present day animals are the result of a long process of evolution, in which at least thousands of mutations must have taken place. Each new mutant in turn must have derived its survival value from the effect which it produced upon the "reaction system" that had been brought into being by the many previously formed factors in cooperation; thus a complicated machine was gradually built up whose effective working was dependent upon the interlocking action of very numerous elementary parts or factors, and many of the characters are factors which, when new, where originally merely an asset finally become necessary because other necessary characters and factors had subsequently become changed so as to be dependent on the former. It must result, in consequence, that a dropping out of, or even a slight change in any one of these parts is very likely to disturb fatally the whole machinery; ... --"Genetic Variablity, Twin Hybrids and Constant Hybrids, in a Case of Balanced Lethal Factors", by Hermann J Muller, in Genetics, Vol 3, No 5, Sept 1918, pp 422-499.
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That is how IC is built. A duplicate gene starts out as an asset, and through mutation and natural selection it becomes a necessity.

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