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To: allmendream

I think one major problem we’re having here is that neither the genetic nor the evolutionary processes of speciation can be precisely described.


603 posted on 01/21/2011 11:18:37 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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To: reasonisfaith
I think one of the major problems you are having is that you don't understand the processes of speciation AT ALL, even after I have described it to you.

I described, precisely, how DNA replication is not 100% accurate, and thus it introduces germline changes. I described to you that these germline changes passed down from parent to child introduce variation into a population. Darwin described, accurately, how natural selection acts upon such variation.

Now if we observe a 0.001% change in a population over 20 years, what is going to stop it from becoming a 1% change in 20,000 years?

If two populations with that rate of change are separated for 20,000 years; why would they not be some 2% different in DNA between them? Why would this 2% difference not be sufficient to call them two different species?

605 posted on 01/21/2011 11:26:32 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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