Poxvirus, really?
Man, I hope no giant poxvirus starts replicating in me.
Man, I hope no giant poxvirus starts replicating in me.
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Once you have replication you can have selection and therefore evolution.
Thanks for showing me the five pages of whatever-that-is about SMALLPOX LARGE.AstroAg17 said:You gotta watch out for that smallpox large.Rongagin71 said:
Man, I hope no giant poxvirus starts replicating in me.
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This is a point that I wish people would get more. So many people talk about the Idiocracy phenomenon with breeding humans and say that it's like we are devolving. If lower IQ and higher hormones is what pushes more successful reproduction then that is what we evolve towards.Quote:
Evolution doesn't mean progress, and evolution doesn't have goals.
I think evolution is what got us from single cell animals to multi-organ thinking animals.AstroAg17 said:I think devolution may be a colloquialism. It's not a term used in biology. Evolution is the change in a population's heritable material over time. There's not a defined "direction". Evolution doesn't mean progress, and evolution doesn't have goals. The factors that cause evolution tend to increase the population's fitness, but that's only a tendency and it's easily predicted by statistics. Those fish that live in caves who have lost the ability to see have evolved. And it makes sense why. There's no longer any selection based on sight, so mutations which hinder sight don't result in a decrease in fitness. These mutations can basically accumulate until none of the fish can see. That's evolution because the population's genetic makeup has changed, and it doesn't matter whether we think the change was helpful or not.Rongagin71 said:
Are you sure the shooting example isn't devolution rather than evolution?