Re: Evolution is NOT random

On May 14, 1:44 pm, Virgil <Vir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <g0cmbb$1o1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

 dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why do I say this?  The only truly random processes in nature are
quantum processes and, as far I know, this quantum randomness plays no
role in genetic mutations.  Mutations are chemical and thermodynamic
phenomena taking place in the macroscopic classical world above the
quantum realm.

Which of two simultaneous sperm cells to reach an ovum will fertilize
it, is certainly an event on a small enough scale so that quantum
randomness could occasionally play a role.


The fittest - fastest sperm get there first. So, for a given egg,
between the X sperm, it's random among the fittest sperm. Over a
large population, it's generally the fittest sperm.

Not that it matters because the it's not a single sperm determining it
all.


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