Re: Demolishing the modern synthesis
- From: William <wpihughes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:13:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 21, 11:41 am, Richard Smol <richard.s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 14, 8:48 pm, c...@xxxxxxxx (Richard Harter) wrote:
(1) There is a fundamental problem with the modern synthesis.
Basically, it is broken. The gist of the matter is that there
aren't enough genes.
Not enough genes? Total bullshit.Your "demolition" goes out the window
at the first point already.
Actually no. Richard Harter argues that (an effective) 70,000 genes
does
not provide enough degrees of freedom to control the number of
features
needed to go from unicelular creatures to humans.
I disagree with the argument, but it is hardly "Total bullshit".
I have several concerned with the argument,
the most fundamental is that I would argue that given a
complex map from genotype to phenotype, it is not possible
to simply relate the number of degrees of freedom provided by the
genotype
to the number of degrees of freedom in the phenotype. In particular,
one cannot claim that the putative fact the the number of degrees of
freedom
in the phenotype is much larger than the number of degrees of
freedom provided by the genotype poses a problem.
- William Hughes
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