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| Quote (sparc @ Oct. 01 2010,22:09) | | Quote (REC @ Oct. 01 2010,15:57) | Sal could use a lesson in reading comprehension, honesty, or both.
His first post takes a paper that claims that because humans in industrialized comfy societies aren't exposed to the selective pressures they were in the past, we're headed for genetic catastrophe.
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This clearly falsifies what?
In the second, a long-term experiment where Drosophila were selectively bred (evolving novel traits!), scientists were surprised to find the evolved alleles didn't fix (become 100%). Sal advises us this falsifies Darwinism.
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My guess is Sal doesn't know what fixation means. He defines it as "Newly appearing good traits in a single individual will rarely get infused (or “fixed” ) into a population" and then goes on about likelyhoods of positive alleles evolving. Dumb. Didn't read the paper, did you? Anyway, there are a number of reasons why alleles might emerge, but not fix-vigor of a heterozygote, advantage of maintaining diversity, gene flow, etc....
And he is the most grotesquely self-congratulating idiot I've ever seen. My prediction confirmed in Nature, read it and weep. What a jackass.... |
Since the "m" in experimetal was lost your second link is dead. Here's the correct one. |
Thanks-guess a typo got fixed in their link.
I thought Sal was supposed to be their superstar Hopkins-attending scientist.
| Quote | But with respect to bacteria, here is a relevant experiment that shows if the bacterial population is small enough, it can go extinct via genetic entropy:
Mutational Meltdown in Yeast |
Back to 6th grade
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