Gore this isn’t communist China where everyone is limited to 2 offspring. The individuals with the good genes will give rise to FAR more progeny than their “average” competitors. Consider an extreme example of this: in certain sea-lion species the entire female population live in harems which are controlled by just 4% of the males (the very best of the best at survival). Genes with even a slight beneficial effect should expand greatly over time. Genes that acquire substantial survival value will spread like wildfire.
That pretty much says that after 10 million years of breeding like that while humans breed the way we do, sea lions should by all rights be running this planet.
What about it? Why aren't they??
I think you need to re-read post# 1605. I was not talking about genes that are functioning, I was speaking of just duplicated genes which are adding no new functionality to the organism and the process up until the time when they supposedly do develop a new function in an evolutionary way. So your statement above is not relevant.
BTW - is that what the female sea-lions told you? They told me otherwise, but it is not fit for publication in a family forum. :)