Re: Modern synthesis on Wikipedia - what is it ?

On May 23, 2:25 pm, backspace <sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 23, 8:13 pm, coaster <coaster...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"There is no canonical definition of neo-Darwinism, and surprisingly
few writers on the subject seem to consider it necessary to spell out
precisely what it is that they are discussing. This is especially
curious in view of the controversy which dogs the theory, for one
might have thought that a first step towards resolving the dispute
over its status would be to decide upon a generally acceptable
definition over it. ... Of course, the lack of firm definition does,
as we shall see, make the theory much easier to defend." P.T. Saunders
& M.W. Ho, "Is Neo-Darwinism Falsifiable? - And Does It Matter?",
Nature and System (1982) 4:179-196, p. 179.
OK, but what has that got to do with the reconciliation between
genetics and evolution? Here's a nice little quote that's actually
relevant to your complaint...

Who reconciled it ? Who is this person in what journal paper did he
reconcile it.

Can you explain why you keep obsessing about "who?" Why on earth
would "who" be of any importance whatsoever?


"The major tenets of the evolutionary synthesis, then, were that
populations contain genetic variation that arises by random (ie. not
adaptively directed) mutation and recombination;

Define for me formally what a "genetic variation" is.

How is that different than "tell you what it is?"


that populations
evolve by changes in gene frequency brought about by random genetic
drift, gene flow, and especially natural selection;

What is a gene frequency and who says so ?

It is how much a particular gene appears in the population, and who
says so is so totally irrelevant that your asking it makes you look,
in all due respect, like an ineducable, pig-headed moron.


that most adaptive
genetic variants have individually slight phenotypic effects so that
phenotypic changes are gradual (although some alleles with discrete
effects may be advantageous,

Give me the formal definition of what is a phenotype and what is an
allele?

What is wrong with you that you don't look it up for yourself? If I
were to do a newsgroup search, would I find that you've already been
told, maybe many times?

Take a gene and show mere on this gene exactly is the "allele"
thingy. Take a human and point to me where is the "phenotype".

For Pete's sake, an allele is a version of a gene, like an allophone
is a version of a phoneme, and an allotrope is (IIRC?) a version of a
molecule. It's not on a gene, it's a version of a gene.

Eric Root

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