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To: Professor Kill

again, your confusing population genetics with natural selection theory. Population genetics predicts the genetic consequence of differential survival. It does not tell which alleles will survive until you first tell population genetics about the differential survival of the allele pairs. Must I continue to give you elementary lessons on the difference between population genetics and natural selection?

Survival of the fittest is not within population genetics. Survival of the fittest is intended as a general theory of survival. It claims to predict the magnitude of differential survival based on biological design. Population genetics does not claim to make that prediction.

One is a science, the other sir, is NOT!!
Now , let's keep it simple.......do you or do you not agree with what i've said? If not...then why?

Once you understand that population genetics is not natural selection, it will eliminate alot of problems. If you don't, I can continue and show you , in population genetics own scientists words, that they understand the difference.

I'm a woman.......

If you don't understand the relevance, then you frankly don't understand whatever discussion we're trying to have.


443 posted on 10/12/2006 1:03:54 PM PDT by caffe (W)
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To: caffe
Here is small piece of advice, madam. If you are going to remain willfully ignorant about a basic scientific theory that is supported by the overwhelming bulk of data and is accepted by the overwhelming bulk of scientists around the world, it is not particularly convincing to give lectures on your misinterpretation of science, particularly when that lecture is woefully inaccurate.

Population genetics

The study of both experimental and theoretical consequences of mendelian heredity on the population level, in contradistinction to classical genetics which deals with the offspring of specified parents on the familial level. The genetics of populations studies the frequencies of genes, genotypes, and phenotypes, and the mating systems. It also studies the forces that may alter the genetic composition of a population in time, such as recurrent mutation, migration, and intermixture between groups, selection resulting from genotypic differential fertility, and the random changes incurred by the sampling process in reproduction from generation to generation. This type of study contributes to an understanding of the elementary step in biological evolution. The principles of population genetics may be applied to plants and to other animals as well as humans.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Now, I believe you *still* have not answered my question. Would you care to do so now, madam?

444 posted on 10/12/2006 1:18:50 PM PDT by Professor Kill
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