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Perspectives on Evolution
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RE: Perspectives on Evolution
(September 28, 2017 at 6:07 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It's any collection of DNA being considered, at whatever resolution you choose to consider it.  It could be the gene pool of our species.  It could be the gene pool of a distinct subgroup in our species..or it could be the gene pool of all extant species.
Is it, though? Or is it a narrative about a hypothetical collection of genes?

Quote:I have to ask, do you also have these objections to the term "car pool" ?
I don't object to the term gene pool-- it's a useful term; however, I think it gets used as a "thing" word rather than as what I think it is-- part of the narrative of the idea of genetic contribution-- i.e., a placeholder word to represent something like "sum of all DNA of a collection of individual organisms, whatever that happens to be."

In the end, if I ask "what evolves," I'm looking for a thing which may actually undergo the process. I suspect that evolution is more of a label for changes in samples than a process which anything can be said to be undergoing.
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Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 27, 2017 at 9:46 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by JackRussell - September 27, 2017 at 9:53 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 27, 2017 at 9:56 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by FatAndFaithless - September 27, 2017 at 9:58 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 27, 2017 at 10:01 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by FatAndFaithless - September 27, 2017 at 10:09 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 10:16 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Minimalist - September 27, 2017 at 11:28 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by JackRussell - September 27, 2017 at 10:03 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 27, 2017 at 7:29 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 7:36 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by SteveII - September 27, 2017 at 8:15 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 27, 2017 at 8:17 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 10:06 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 11:44 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by brewer - September 27, 2017 at 11:57 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Neo-Scholastic - September 27, 2017 at 12:03 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 27, 2017 at 12:57 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 27, 2017 at 2:02 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by ignoramus - September 28, 2017 at 3:51 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 28, 2017 at 6:59 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 28, 2017 at 7:03 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 28, 2017 at 9:11 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 1:49 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Alex K - September 27, 2017 at 3:04 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by FatAndFaithless - September 27, 2017 at 3:11 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 27, 2017 at 7:36 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Thumpalumpacus - September 27, 2017 at 10:32 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by JackRussell - September 27, 2017 at 3:11 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by I_am_not_mafia - September 27, 2017 at 4:26 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 4:44 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 27, 2017 at 5:24 pm
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RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 1:08 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 28, 2017 at 6:56 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 5:35 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 28, 2017 at 5:36 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by popeyespappy - September 28, 2017 at 10:36 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 28, 2017 at 10:45 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 5:42 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 28, 2017 at 9:06 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 11:10 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 29, 2017 at 7:52 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Thumpalumpacus - September 29, 2017 at 8:56 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 5:45 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 5:59 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 6:07 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 7:10 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Whateverist - September 28, 2017 at 6:13 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 8:47 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by chimp3 - September 28, 2017 at 9:07 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 9:10 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by I_am_not_mafia - September 29, 2017 at 2:21 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 4:21 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Sal - September 29, 2017 at 4:46 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 5:43 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 29, 2017 at 7:10 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 29, 2017 at 8:05 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by ignoramus - September 29, 2017 at 5:51 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 29, 2017 at 8:01 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2017 at 9:44 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 8:17 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Succubus - September 29, 2017 at 8:43 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 30, 2017 at 7:26 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 30, 2017 at 11:00 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Thumpalumpacus - September 30, 2017 at 7:02 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2017 at 10:09 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 30, 2017 at 6:53 am
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RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Brian37 - September 30, 2017 at 7:40 pm
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