Guys, ease up on Sy. After all, he's the one who came up with the reformulation of natural selection that will make it so much easier for scientists to gauge whatever it is they gauge when they look at Nature, and without the ideological value judgments about 'adaptation' and 'fitness' and 'evolution' that Darwinism brings to the table.
All a biologist will have to do in Syamsu-world is keep a log of every single organism in existence, then put a check mark next to its name if it reproduces. It doesn't matter how much it reproduces, because in Syamsu-world we're not interested in gauging its reproductive success in the context of other organisms. See how easy this is?
Now sexual reproduction (like among those mammal things) will, admittedly, make things a little tricky in Syamsu-world. Since this practice reportedly involves more than one organism, it will certainly necessitate another column or two on the organism checklist. However, we're still not going to include comparison or anything, because comparisons don't happen in Nature. For those of you who say it will be difficult to determine which male has, in fact, sired an offspring in populations where the female is likely to have multiple male partners, I say you should go away. There will be no need to 'compare' genomes or any such Darwinist nonsense. We'll think of something and get back to you. After you go away.
All this effort is so much easier than taking samples of a population and calculating which alleles are increasing or decreasing in frequency from previous samples. In Syamsu-world, once we have a tally of the reproductive success or failure of every single organism in existence, we can tell...uh..well, we can draw our conclusions from the data obtained.
regards,
Esteban Hambre
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