Re: Evolution: validate that it works, right at home!

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

Haldane was wrong because Haldane failed to take
into account the so called Schema Theorem, that
evolution, by acting in parallel on coupled building
blocks of more fit genome fragments, takes advantage
of _exponential_, as opposed to Haldane's
presumption of _linear_, improvement rates due to
natural selection of the coupled building blocks _as
a group_.

That is, I believe, this one:

``When genes are closer together on a chromosome
(tightly linked), they are more likely to move
together as a single unit because they are not
broken up by recombination. This will lower the
substitution cost even more than the simultaneous
substitution of unlinked genes.''

- http://www.gate.net/~rwms/haldane.html

I imagine Haldane might ask how common two
linked beneficial mutations in different
genes occurring in the same organism before
either has spread through the population
actually is.
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