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Author Topic:   A New Run at the End of Evolution by Genetic Processes Argument
Tangle
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Message 22 of 259 (770716)
10-13-2015 11:28 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by Blue Jay
10-13-2015 11:16 AM


Whole list of beneficial human mutations here:
4 beneficial evolutionary mutations that humans are undergoing right now - Big Think

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Message 39 of 259 (770741)
10-13-2015 2:05 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by Faith
10-13-2015 1:28 PM


Yeh, laughing at a gene always poofs it out of existence. Did you merely snigger at the others?
On your other perpetual complaint of us not understanding the point you are trying to make - everyone understands it. The reason for that is that it's trivially true that if a population splits into two then there will be a loss of diversity in each population when compared to the prior population. You know, arithmetic? The only way there could be no loss would be if the population was entirely made of clones.
The point you consistently then avoid/ignore/dismiss is that after divergence, for a speciation event to occur, the two diverged populations MUST add more genetic variety. If they didn't the two diverged populations would remain unchanged, speciation doesn't occur and the combined genetic variance in both populations would be as it was in the original population - ie no overall loss, just two geographically seperate organisms of the same species.
Geddit?

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Message 151 of 259 (771036)
10-17-2015 4:22 PM
Reply to: Message 148 by Faith
10-17-2015 3:45 PM


Re: Adding alleles prevents evolution from occurring
Faith writes:
Well, for that to happen alleles have to be lost for other phenotypes.
Can you explain how the whale phenotype includes the genes able to make a leg every now and then?

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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