==Exactly the opposite of the way things actually are.
Could you please be specific. Thank you.
“Exactly the opposite of the way things actually are.”
Well, that seems clear enough. Which word would you like me to define?
If you actually read the articles you post, and frankly I would be amazed if you did, as it would require speed if not comprehension, then you might realize that this individual is arguing that life is evolving from complexity to simplicity.
Perhaps he has been influenced by “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, but the real world doesn’t work that way.
As has been offered to you, polyploidy is an instance in which primarily plant species double their chromosomes, affording themselves a kind of hybrid vigor. That would be extremely difficult to operate in reverse.
Something similar happens among animal species, when germline or gamete cell division allows some lines to have longer than normal chromosomal links. It also means that others get short shrift, but they usually die off quickly from lacking the necessary instructions and procedures.
It is the ones with extra material that become interesting, as they have a few more pages to work with for experimental purposes. It is through such a mechanism that I suggest certain simians gained additional retinal pigments which provided three-color vision, and for birds to have four-color vision.
Most mammals are limited to two pigments of light sensitivity. How you, or your predecessors, view the world can change the way you live in it, and color vision is a prime example of that.
Color vision allowed primates to find and select fruits in season, and gave them an advantage in an arboreal environment.
Of course, you’ve heard this before. My point is that it was the perhaps accidental doubling of a particular stretch of chromosomal information, passed down to offspring without harm for generations, and then subtly modified through serendipitous mutation, that allowed multiple pigment vision to thrive.
Your author has it twisted round an entirely different way, presuming that the majority of mammals had a more complete set of instructions that has somehow become corrupted in a way that benefits us because we end up with more information in our genome.
Forgive me for pointing it out, but that makes absolutely no sense.
Surely you must “see” that?