Re: Darwin, Evolution, the Animal Kingdom, and Man

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:10:18 -0500

Albert wrote:
> Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
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>> Albert wrote:
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>>> How does artificial selection reduce the genome variation?
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>> When specific traits are selected for, the genomic variation that
>> relates to those traits is diminished.
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> Sorry, Wolf. But you seem to have replied with a tautology.
>
> And perhaps my (mis)understanding is further aggravated by the fact that
> I now no longer understand just what is genomic variation.

It's the average difference between genomes of any two individuals of
the same (different) species. Eg, if on average 1 in 250 base pairs
differs, genomic variation is 0.4%.