Destroying Darwinism

This last comment (among others was) [This message has been edited by Mammuthus, 06-06-2003]

I will do better..I will draw a picture below of the sum total of your understanding of natural selection...see the empty space below[This message has been edited by Mammuthus, 06-06-2003]

How does job candidacy spread through a population? Lousy example S

I would say that depends...if the population must (by some incomprehensible way)always remain clonal and never vary (how this would be constrained I do not see), then you would have no evolution...this is a scenario that is not supported by any data I am aware of... But a period of stasis in not hard to imagine though given polymerase replication errors (including in asexually reproducing organisms) it is likely to be a brief stasis.It seems like Symansu is a fan of a warped view of punctuated equilibrium....but as you pointed out earlier...this thread is like a time warp cheers,
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Again, mutation/recombination is the origin, and after that it's just reproduction or no reproduction.

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If this were the case you would expect every mutation to have an equal chance of being represented in a population yet this is clearly not the case...some mutations spread very quickly and become fixed...sometimes a few variants are common...why if selection is irrelevant?Also, do you assume every time there is a mutation in someones DNA that they will fail to reproduce? with your logic we should be clonal or do you believe that mutations are the cause of reproduction? Why would a mutation cause a difference in the rate of reproduction in your scenario?[This message has been edited by Mammuthus, 07-01-2003]