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VMartin



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,11:31   

This is the picture of the Issoria lathonia, where  the reverse side of the butterfly wings can be observed:



The color patterns of front wings and hind wings make perfect harmony. But only in these resting position of wings, when the front wings are behind hind wings. We see only small parts of reverse side of front wings. The hided, covered part of them have almost the same coloration as front parts of butterfly wings coloration.



Do you see the white spots on the upper margin at the front wings? There are many black spots on wings which look like copy of spots on the upper part of wings.

So the harmony arise only in special position of wings. It seems like an artist painted the pattern in this exactly position. The phenomenon - neglected nowadays - is called after entomologist Oudemanse (or die Totalzeichnung, the term coined by Suffert) .

We often see animal coloration making the whole nice picture. This picture "is painted" over many parts of animal body which developes independently during ontogenesis.

Heikertinger considered "natural selection" as totally wrong explanatin of the phenomenon conceived in heads of "Hypothetiker" as he called proponents of natural selection.

I couldn't find a picture  of Papilio dolicaon where he made his issue about the Oudemanse effect. There are semi-circles on its front and hind wings that fit into each other and create circles in the resting position of wings. It is hardly imaginable (if you are not a darwinist of course) that predators left only those individuals where circles were perfect and eliminated all those individuals, which didn't create perfect circles. It would mean that predators have also some aesthetical feeling.

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,11:43   

Aw, Martin, is this your way of avoiding the other questions waiting for you?   :(

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,11:44   

Quote (VMartin @ Sep. 21 2007,12:31)
This is the picture of the Issoria lathonia, where  the reverse side of the butterfly wings can be observed:



The color patterns of front wings and hind wings make perfect harmony. But only in these resting position of wings, when the front wings are behind hind wings. We see only small parts of reverse side of front wings. The hided, covered part of them have almost the same coloration as front parts of butterfly wings coloration.



Do you see the white spots on the upper margin at the front wings? There are many black spots on wings which look like copy of spots on the upper part of wings.

So the harmony arise only in special position of wings. It seems like an artist painted the pattern in this exactly position. The phenomenon - neglected nowadays - is called after entomologist Oudemanse (or die Totalzeichnung, the term coined by Suffert) .

We often see animal coloration making the whole nice picture. This picture "is painted" over many parts of animal body which developes independently during ontogenesis.

Heikertinger considered "natural selection" as totally wrong explanatin of the phenomenon conceived in heads of "Hypothetiker" as he called proponents of natural selection.

I couldn't find a picture  of Papilio dolicaon where he made his issue about the Oudemanse effect. There are semi-circles on its front and hind wings that fit into each other and create circles in the resting position of wings. It is hardly imaginable (if you are not a darwinist of course) that predators left only those individuals where circles were perfect and eliminated all those individuals, which didn't create perfect circles. It would mean that predators have also some aesthetical feeling.

VMartin can't understand how a particular butterfly evolved to look the way it does, therefore goddidit.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,11:46   

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VMartin can't understand how a particular butterfly evolved to look the way it does, therefore goddidit.


No, that's the fun part: VMartin can't understand how a particular butterfly evolved to look the way it does, therefore he refuses to tell you what he thinks really happened.

He has no solutions to anything, but he sure hates him some Darwinists.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,12:12   

It's not as though the chemical that causes the coloration might have other effects of some benefit to the organism, or that the genes responsible might be linked to other genes, or that the impact of the pigment on number of descentdants might be small enough that genetic drift could produce variety.

After all, anybody claiming that coloration is a problem for current theory would have already been thorough about ruling out those hypotheses, right?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,12:59   

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the Oudemanse effect


Well, it had to happen. VMartin plays his trump card.

What can you say to the Oudemanse effect?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,13:07   

I think I can counter with the Fibonacci phenomenon. Have you ever looked, I mean really looked, at the arrangement of leaves in a globe artichoke?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2007,17:23   

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I think I can counter with the Fibonacci phenomenon. Have you ever looked, I mean really looked, at the arrangement of leaves in a globe artichoke?

Like, wow, man ... deep!

  
VMartin



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 24 2007,12:33   

You have never heard about Oudemanse and after him called phenomenon of the total coloration of animals ("Totalzeichnung"). That's why Alan pursued me - instead of making his own research - to ISCID with his questions.  

Because you didn't find any information using google the phenomenon apparently does not exist for you.  

But you should learn more about how to use google:

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The independence of pattern formation mechanisms means that the coordination of united patterns of fore- and hindwings is accidental. This is remarkable, because from Oudemans’s principle [10] , patterns appearing on the exposed surface of fore- and hindwing at the natural resting position are often integrated to form a composite and united adaptive pattern with their surrounding environment.



http://www.springerlink.com/content/nu62h0580t697hn6/


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VMartin can't understand how a particular butterfly evolved to look the way it does, therefore goddidit.


But we are pretty sure naturalselectiondidnotdoit.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 24 2007,12:47   

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But we are pretty sure naturalselectiondidnotdoit.

oldmanintheskydidntdoit asks if naturalselectiondidnotdoit then whatdiddoit?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 24 2007,15:46   

Yes, Martin, what is your alternate explanation?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 26 2007,13:49   

I hit on the neodarwinian article "The evolution of imperfect mimicry in hoverflies". That's a good reading! There is  much more confusion than there was 50 years before. But no wonder,  selectionists insist on aposematism whatever the facts are.


In 2002 are selectionists as lost as they were in 1954. It is so ridiculous that I must share some ideas from the above mentioned "up-to-date" material.  

First selectionists have to admit sting play no role in aposematism:

       
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The evidence that birds are also deterred by the sting is very weak and unconvincing. Mostler (1935) recorded no stings suffered by experienced adult birds, and of 70 prolonged contacts between bumblebees and young naive birds trying to eat them, there were only three stings.


Uf! And what nowadays, those research must be outdated!

       
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Likewise Evans & Waldbauer (1982) thought that the sting of Bombus pennsylvanicus americanorum was not the main protection against birds. Only two of their birds were stung; the others avoided eating bumblebees only after having eaten the “middle segments of the abdomen”, presumably with the venom sac. In this case unpalatability may be due to distasteful venom.


Uf.

       
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but birds appear to be rarely if ever stung (Mostler, 1935; Liepelt, 1963), and probably the sting is not a significant deterrent (Liepelt, 1963).


So darwinists are obviously lost, because stings are inneficient (they are only "secondary source of noxiousness" in their newspeak). But darwinian fantasy is still efficient:


       
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Mostler considered the unpalatability of the abdomen to be the major source of noxiousness for wasps, and the sting was only secondary: subsequently Liepelt (1963) found that venom-free abdominal tissue evoked none of the typical unpalatability reactions. It is the terrible taste that the venom imparts to the abdomen that is the main deterrent for birds.


You would think: no problem. If no sting, that venom is the reason of unpalatability. But behold, not even this:

       
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The basis of the ‘noxiousness’ of a model need not be unpalatability or stings, despite the fact that most discussions about mimicry have focused upon these elements.


Unbelievable! Not stings? Not even unpalatability? What then? Hold your breath now! :

       
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In Brower & Brower’s (1965) experiments with toads feeding on honeybees and their Palpada mimics, for example, producing a buzz with the wings caused a 38% drop in predation, whereas the use of the sting caused only a 21% decrease in the mortality of the mimic. Thus sound seems to be a very important component of the signal that toads associate with noxiousness


Bingo! It is a buzz! Something that scientists of past weren't aware of and therefore their research is nowadays outdated!

(But frankly speaking -  would you believe such nonsense except you are a darwinist?)

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 26 2007,14:00   

Marty, you seem to really hate Darwinism for some reason, but you have yet to tell us what YOUR preferred explanation is. Why are you too afraid to do this?

PS: Just FYI, 'uf' isn't English.

PS2: No surprise, little Martin has been scared away *again*:

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 26 2007,14:32   

i don't think VMartin is necessarily saying goddidit.

he is saying what the german school attempted to say during the early part of the 20th century, that there are channels of development.  some like eimer admitted that these could be a result of selection.  as far as i can tell from reading gould, eimer did search for material causes and was not positing supernatural or design explanations.  it's just an old rehash of the formalist/structuralist vs adaptationist/selectionist debate, not an argument for design per se.

of course, where did these channels come from was a question that some of the german school appealed to mystical forces to answer.

so, martin, you are not persuaded of weismanns view of selection.  where do orthogenetic channels come from?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 26 2007,14:40   

Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Sep. 26 2007,14:32)
i don't think VMartin is necessarily saying goddidit.

he is saying what the german school attempted to say during the early part of the 20th century, that there are channels of development.  some like eimer admitted that these could be a result of selection.  as far as i can tell from reading gould, eimer did search for material causes and was not positing supernatural or design explanations.  it's just an old rehash of the formalist/structuralist vs adaptationist/selectionist debate, not an argument for design per se.

of course, where did these channels come from was a question that some of the german school appealed to mystical forces to answer.

so, martin, you are not persuaded of weismanns view of selection.  where do orthogenetic channels come from?

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he is saying what the german school attempted to say during the early part of the 20th century, that there are channels of development.  some like eimer admitted that these could be a result of selection.  as far as i can tell from reading gould, eimer did search for material causes and was not positing supernatural or design explanations.  it's just an old rehash of the formalist/structuralist vs adaptationist/selectionist debate, not an argument for design per se.


Maybe. But if so, I don't know why he refuses to say so.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 26 2007,17:08   

cause it is easier to play jester that way.

i don't think he will find his panselectionist boogey man here, but it is fun to yank his chain.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 26 2007,19:28   

Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Sep. 26 2007,17:08)
cause it is easier to play jester that way.

i don't think he will find his panselectionist boogey man here, but it is fun to yank his chain.

He still hasn't answered the question about common descent, tho. I have no intention of letting him off the hook on that one.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,12:31   

Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,Sep. 26 2007,17:08)
cause it is easier to play jester that way.

i don't think he will find his panselectionist boogey man here, but it is fun to yank his chain.

Erasmus, do you agree that natural selection play no role in aposematism and mimicry? That's great!

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,12:43   

Troll.

  
VMartin



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,13:17   

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Troll.

Do you have any opinion on aposematism or mimicry? Are they caused by natural selection on your view?

Do you think that wasps are protected by their "warning coloration"?

Or do you just present your superioir manner having no idea about the problem?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,14:45   

No, I don't agree that 'no role' is even the issue.  We are discussing the relative importance of selection and internal constraints.  And I think you know that which is why you refuse to address the question.

One More Time:

Now, where the hell do orthogenetic channels come from?  Are they material in origin, or not?  

You have misrepresented even your own literary sources to make assertions that natural selection plays no role in coloration.  There are two questions here, namely 1) origin of patterning and 2) fixation of patterning in populations.  

You routinely jump between questions 1 and 2 either because you are dishonest or because you don't even understand what you are [not] saying.  answer the questions.

[stage whisper]  me thinks VMartin is Alan Sokal in deep cover.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,15:14   

Erasmus, what the hell are you talking about? I haven't claimed that behind mimicry there are "orthogenetic channels".


Why don't you answer a simple question and why do you put your off-topic questions instead like poor Arden?

Are so you afraid accepting "natural selection" as the source of mimicry? I have supposed that you are a selectionist...

But to be clear: "warning coloration" of wasps and ladybugs do not exists actually. It exists only as armchair darwinian preconception in heads and in "primary literature" of darwinists. They need  to explain bright coloration of insects. So they see aposematism and mimicry everywhere. They consider their fantasies about coloration to be real. They suppose "warning coloration" to be outcome of "natural selection" that gives their bearer "survival advantage".

Of course such fantasies about ladybugs, wasps, bees, bumple-bees etc. contradicts reality. But oddly enough such fantasies still penetrate into peer-reviewed journals, publications etc...

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,15:15   

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Erasmus, what the hell are you talking about? I haven't claimed that behind mimicry there are "orthogenetic channels".


Why don't you answer a simple question and why do you put your off-topic questions instead like poor Arden?

Are so you afraid accepting "natural selection" as the source of mimicry? I have supposed that you are a selectionist...

But to be clear: "warning coloration" of wasps and ladybugs do not exists actually. It exists only as armchair darwinian preconception in heads and in "primary literature" of darwinists. They need  to explain bright coloration of insects. So they see aposematism and mimicry everywhere. They consider their fantasies about coloration to be real. They suppose "warning coloration" to be outcome of "natural selection" that gives their bearer "survival advantage".

Of course such fantasies about ladybugs, wasps, bees, bumple-bees etc. contradicts reality. But oddly enough such fantasies still penetrate into peer-reviewed journals, publications etc...

The real answer, of course, is that the "designer" simply likes things to be pretty.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,15:22   

VMartin more dishonesty.  Every appeal to anti-selection you have made has been straight from the german school.  This school has two camps:  materialist and mystic.

Where does aposematic coloration come from?  

Remember this is two questions:  I think you are interested in the primary (from where does the coloration or patterning arise).  This is not a selective issue.  Your antiselectionist lit examples (convenient how your best stuff 'is not available in english', eh?) that i am familiar with posit channels or furrows of development that are more or less hard wired.  

The question 'how does mimicry become fixed in populations' is clearly answered by selection.  While I could be convinced otherwise and sometimes have, I find it hard to believe you could be so thick as to deny this.

So, back to the question.  Where does aposematic coloration come from?  I wanna hear it.  Mind precedes matter and butterflies think it into existence?  Or is it a spandrel?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,15:22   

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Of course such fantasies about ladybugs, wasps, bees, bumple-bees etc. contradicts reality. But oddly enough such fantasies still penetrate into peer-reviewed journals, publications etc...


And your alternative explanation to random mutation and natural selection is - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*

(*please fill in blank)

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,15:24   

VMartin

Why do hybrid butterflies exhibit intergrading wing patterns?

(see Heliconias, Lyceades)

If it is heritable it is selectable, buffoon.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,17:10   

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Quote (guthrie @ Sep. 27 2007,12:43)
Troll.

Do you have any opinion on aposematism or mimicry? Are they caused by natural selection on your view?

Do you think that wasps are protected by their "warning coloration"?

Or do you just present your superioir manner having no idea about the problem?

'Projection', Marty. Look it up in your English-Slovak dictionary.

For a person who hates Darwinism but has absolutely nothing to offer instead, you're not in the position to be bitching here, dimwit.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,17:11   

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But to be clear: "warning coloration" of wasps and ladybugs do not exists actually. It exists only as armchair darwinian preconception in heads and in "primary literature" of darwinists. They need  to explain bright coloration of insects. So they see aposematism and mimicry everywhere. They consider their fantasies about coloration to be real. They suppose "warning coloration" to be outcome of "natural selection" that gives their bearer "survival advantage".

Have an alternate explanation, dipshit?

Didn't think so.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,17:18   

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Troll.

Do you have any opinion on aposematism or mimicry? Are they caused by natural selection on your view?

Do you think that wasps are protected by their "warning coloration"?

Or do you just present your superioir manner having no idea about the problem?

Variation and natural selection, of course.  

I call you a troll because you continually fail to communicate your side of the argument, guaranteeing that well meaning people will waste time trying to work out what you are on about.  (or alternatively laughing at you)

So, want to try again to explain what you are talking about?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2007,17:25   

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Erasmus, what the hell are you talking about? I haven't claimed that behind mimicry there are "orthogenetic channels".

You haven't claimed anything actually, except "darwinism can't explain...".
We're trying to guess what your theory is, but you're not helping.  ???

  
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