raguel
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Joined: Feb. 2008
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| Quote (Paul Nelson @ April 23 2008,10:40) | Alb said,
| Quote | | Don't you think you could answer some of them, rather than just ask questions of your own and pretend that ours don't exist? |
Here's a quick recap. JAM cited a paper from Science in support of his question to me about the genetic basis of size differences. The paper concerned variation in dogs. I read it, thought about it, and wondered about a couple of things:
1. How do we determine the genetics of size differences for extinct taxa? The original context of JAM's question involved scaling illustrations of the mammal-like reptile transition.
2. The variation in canids was in domesticated, not wild, populations. Hence I wondered if JAM had additional data about size variation in natural populations, because I think there are important (evidentially relevant) differences between domesticated and wild populations, with respect to evolution.
So my question to JAM stems from trying to follow up his question to me. |
Isn't that the sort of research that should have been done before the book was printed? Before you accused scientists of being dishonest/misleading?
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