ericmurphy
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| Quote (The Ghost of Paley @ Oct. 24 2006,19:10) | | Wow, you guys are still arguing about the informational load in mutations. I've got a question for everybody: Has Dave explained why gene duplication + mutation doesn't increase the functional complexity of the genome? If he has, does he believe that the duplicate gene is always silenced before it can mutate into something useful? Or that the new gene(s) just partition the old functions? Or that the process is too rare to be of any use? |
Dave is still hung up on the distinction between "information" and "meaning." Until he gets those two detangled, he's not going to get anywhere talking about an increase or decrease in "information."
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