Year: 2022

IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE. “To make the change irreversible at the population level, there is no need for one particular mutation (genotype) to be spread throughout the whole population as a result of its differential reproduction – instead, it is possible simply to have one of these billions of mutations in each individual.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

GERMLINE MUTATIONS. “For a germline to collect these mutations will be just a matter of time; differential reproduction is not required for this. The process of collecting these mutations is enhanced by recombination, because if an individual has gathered several mutations having the same effect, a recombination process will distribute these to the offspring of a partner that does not yet have any. Such distribution of the trait in the population, again, does not require any differential reproduction.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

GERMLINE MUTATIONS. “For a germline to collect these mutations will be just a matter of time; differential reproduction is not required for this.“ https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

GERMLINE MUTATIONS. “For a germline to collect these mutations will be just a matter of time; differential reproduction is not required for this. The process of collecting these mutations is enhanced by recombination, because if an individual has gathered several mutations having the same effect, a recombination process will distribute these to the offspring of a partner that does not yet have any. Such distribution of the trait in the population, again, does not require any differential reproduction.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

GERMLINE DISTRIBUTION. “The process of collecting these mutations is enhanced by recombination, because if an individual has gathered several mutations having the same effect, a recombination process will distribute these to the offspring of a partner that does not yet have any. Such distribution of the trait in the population, again, does not require any differential reproduction.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

PLASTICITY. “Genetic changes are not sources of plasticity, they are rather the constraints of plasticity.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

ADAPTATION. “Adaptation is always a local relation, it is never universal.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

FUTURE MALADAPTION. “It is possible, for instance, that an adaptation which enables an organism to consume certain food and to specialize on its use may become detrimental due to a later shortage of that resource – still, it remains an adaptation.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

SEMIOTIC CHANGE. “The semiotic mechanism of an evolutionary event consists of two steps: (1) the adaptive plastic non-genetic change, and (2) the neutral genetic change.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION #1. “Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution: 1. Non-random mutations, genetic change first...there exist some recent claims about the existence of this mechanism. For instance, J. A. Shapiro writes: ‘Cells are built to evolve; they have the ability to alter their hereditary characteristics rapidly through well-described natural genetic engineering […]’.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn