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I'm not sure accelerated evolution is the right term, but the idea makes sense. Changing conditions exert selections pressures. Dietary changes would have been
by netsp 17y ago
I'm not sure accelerated evolution is the right term, but the idea makes sense. Changing conditions exert selections pressures.
Dietary changes would have been a substantial. Lactose tolerance, for example is almost certainly new.
- cjg 17y agoYou can accelerate without changing speed - it's a vector.
- netsp 17y agoevolution is not directional
- dejb 17y agoI think that if the rate of genetic change increases then acceleration is an fair word. If one defined the prevalence of each gene in the population you would get a vector were you could possibly 'change direction'. None of this requires any metric of 'goodness' to be defined if that is what you are worried about.