Re: Natural selection as a non-random selection process - Wikipedia

On Dec 11, 1:14 pm, backspace <sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 11, 5:38 pm, Mark VandeWettering <wetter...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2007-12-11, backspace <sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift
"...It contrasts with the evolutionary mechanism, natural selection, a
non-random selection process in which the tendency of alleles to
become more or less widespread in a population over time is due to the
alleles' effects on adaptive and reproductive success..."

What would a random selection process look like?

Presumably it would select creatures at random, without any measurable
correlation to their phenotypes.

Mark

And as the Wikipedia page on phenotype has pointed out there are no
citations: Nobody can tell Wikipedia who says so or who has defined or
established what is a phenotypte. It seems to be just
another rubbish word like the term "reproductive success", just word
filler to give the illusion of explaining something. So tell me then
who has established what is a phenotype, how was it defined, what are
we really trying to say with this word. What is the purpose behind
it.

Here are the references wikipedia uses for the phenotype article:

# Churchill F.B. 1974. William Johannsen and the genotype concept. J
History of Biology 7, 5-30.
# ^ Johannsen W. 1911. The genotype conception of heredity. American
Naturalist 45, 129-159
# ^ Sydney Brenner and Jeffrey H. Miller. 2002. Encyclopedia of
Genetics San Diego: Academic Press.

Here is a definition:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phenotype

Why do you refuse to learn?

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