Thanks miosim for the reformatting.
To view these links you need MS word. I hope, you do not have problem with that.
I use OpenOffice Suite - it reads MS documents just fine without lining Bill Gate's pockets.
I am not knowledgeable in the field of population genetics to judge correctness of Vigen Geodakyan’s theories.
It's not the population genetics that I have a problem with (yet), rather it is the unfounded assertions and blatant falsehoods. One that struck me was this one:
quote:
Much more important is the qualitative feature: in the asexual method no new quality appears, whereas in each instance of the sexual reproduction new qualities appear which are different from the parental ones.
This is just plain false. Mutations occur in both asexual and sexual species and copy errors during cell reproduction also occur in both kinds of organisms.
For example, if males are bigger than the females, then there is an evolutionary tendency for size to increase in the species. In the other case, if males are smaller than females, the species evolves to have smaller specimens.
Sorry. That's
See
Cope's rulequote:
In evolutionary biology, Cope's rule states that population lineages tend to increase body size over geological time.
Also, I notice a dearth of evidence that would validate his points. To prove his point he would need to show actual examples of compliance with Cope's Rule and that all the species involved had larger males than females, AND that counter examples to Cope's Rule all involved species with smaller males than females. The problem is that many species are the same size between males and females yet they will increase or decrease in body size over time in response to ecological constraints.
We may conjecture that humans are becoming taller at this stage of history, because an average man is taller than an average woman (Fig. 5). ... The anthropologists and entomologists believe this is the case: mankind is growing . “
Due to better nutrition and health, and they went through a period in the middle of the dark ages when they were smaller than modern humans and smaller than Romans, yet the females are consistently smaller than the males (it's called sexual dimorphism).
Also I am opposing indiscriminate use of methodology of Supreme Purpose that Vigen Geodakyan’s employed at full extend.
Yet you use arguments based on it? Arguments that are invalid? You need a better source of information.
Enjoy.
Edited by RAZD, : added to quotes
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