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To: Elsie
[Elsie:] The very same 'small gene pool' that "E" types claim has started each and every change in the line, that we find in today's 'modern' animals.

[Ichneumon:] Where did you get that incorrect idea from?

[Elsie:] From 'E's.................. "..a change has occurred that enhances an organisms offspring's surviability" This is, by definition, a 'small gene pool'.

No. You clearly don't understand what a gene pool is. "By definition", a gene pool is:

Evolution is a change in the gene pool of a population over time. A gene is a hereditary unit that can be passed on unaltered for many generations. The gene pool is the set of all genes in a species or population.
-- from Introduction to Evolutionary Biology (which I suggest you read before you attempt more posts on this thread)

The fact that a mutation first occurs in a single individual doesn't magically make the species's gene pool a size of "one". That individual still resides within a larger population, which contains many other genes available for genetic "mix-and-match".

577 posted on 03/03/2004 10:45:25 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
You are fighting a hopeless battle here. Elsie thinks of mutations a s hopeful monsters rather than a variation within an existing breeding population. Hence the willful misunderstanding about the alleged lack of mates for the new "type".
579 posted on 03/03/2004 10:54:09 AM PST by js1138
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To: Ichneumon
(which I suggest you read before you attempt more posts on this thread)

For my safety
or so that I won't appear to be so stupid in your eyes?

585 posted on 03/03/2004 12:24:40 PM PST by Elsie (When the avalanche starts... it's too late for the pebbles to vote....)
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