[staterightsfirst]

You made the claim that gene duplication always results in a "freak," or, a reduction in fitness for successive generations.

Can you support that claim with a reasoned biochemical and ecological argument or can't you?

[b_sharp]

"You made the claim that gene duplication always results in a "freak," or, a reduction in fitness for successive generations."

I guess 'freak' is some new technical term along the lines of 'loss of function is only decline'. I guess subjectivity is the new creationist methodology when determining fitness.

[GourmetDan]

If you were paying attention, you would remember that we were discussing this issue in the context of leg development.

Gene duplication was offered as the solution for evolutionary 'leg development'. In that context, all that has been observed are freaks.

This is so far from polyploidy or imaginary duplications that supposedly happened 100 million years ago as to be totally irrelevant.

But, having a short attention span is what evos count on. Otherwise they can't play their games.