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Apologies and much appreciation for the introduction of some interesting, and very much important, models from evolutionary biology. I fear my tone was somewhat
by jballanc 11y ago
Apologies and much appreciation for the introduction of some interesting, and very much important, models from evolutionary biology. I fear my tone was somewhat poisoned by that of the grandparent comment. Wanting to learn about evolution is fine. Doing so by asserting that certain accepted "truths" might not hold is also perfectly valid (assuming you're willing to accept when you are wrong).
Claiming that the entire premise of a course of research, on which numerous scientists with extensive training have worked, is "false" is just filled with the worst sort of hubris.
- bhickey 11y agoNo worries. Leaving claims of hubris aside, I think some of the sibling threads are a tad mistaken. For example, population size is a determiner of the rate of neutral drift. I'm trying to work through what are the implications to having more genealogical ancestors than genetic ancestors, but it isn't immediately clear. If you really want your mind blown, check out Art Poon's paper "The Rate of Compensatory Mutation in the DNA Bacteriophage φX174" and Daniel Weinreich's "Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins". Both have some amazing evolutionary implications.