Re: Reviving group selection

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:44:48 +0000 (UTC)

"Tim Tyler" <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message news:cfj1qp$1m4b$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> Perplexed in Peoria <jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net> wrote or quoted:
> >
> > "Tim Tyler" <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message news:cfg2sf$nco$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> > > Without such recombination, organsims would be asexual - and no
> > > cross-breeding would occur.
> >
> > I'm not sure I agree, but this disagreement has nothing to do with group
> > selection.
>
> I /suspect/ this may have something to do with you interpreting
> "sexual recombination" as referring to a process that happens between
> homologous chromosomes - whereas I intended it to refer to any process
> that produces new combinations of genes via sex.
>
> That is a hypothesis which would explain your comment, anyway.

Your hypothesis is correct. I think that the correct term for your concept
is "mixis". But double-check this please. I am going by memory.