Re: A critique of the BBC aquatic ape programme and the transcript.

"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "JAE" <jae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> If selection was removed and there was no drift, there'd be no change.
>> Humans would still be able to climb forever and ever unless there was
>> some selective reason to change the form that affected this. Drift is
>> the force operating here when you remove selection (and actually
>> working when there's selection too, though selection can dwarf the
>> effects). Removing selection is among the fastest way to get
>> evolutionary change because there's nothing putting the breaks on
>> change.
>
>> Removing selection is among the fastest way to get
>> evolutionary change because there's nothing putting the breaks on
>> change.
>
> This is as good an example of 'scientific
> fatuity' -- and of what we get from the
> pretentious fools in PA who claim to be
> scientists -- as we can expect to find.
>
> No doubt it's true in laboratories, when
> working with hundreds of generations
> of bacteria or fruit-flies, under entirely
> artificial conditions. But it has no basis
> whatever in the natural world among
> wild mammals. Selection cannot be
> removed from the ordinary world. But
> PA types don't know this. They seem
> to have no feeling whatever for nature,
> nor for ordinary species and individuals
> that every day experience a struggle to
> survive to the next.

What's with you, Pauli? You've posted twice
today and haven't said ***. Are you incapable
of engaging in a decent human converstation?
And what's with this *my*name*in*lights*
pablum? Is that supposed to make me think
you're worth a nickel? Wrong again.

> Paul.


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