Well I got the 1/100,000,000 has a benificial mutation" our of here
So yeah, 1 in 100,000,000 has a benificial mutation. And the odds of the benificial mutations getting passed on to the next generation and spreading are small. And the process being repated is even smaller... And is 4 million years nearly enough for it all to happen?
And Adrian, originally I just asked a question... I don't know why you guys seem so hostile towards me.
(September 1, 2009 at 11:27 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Mutational rate varies from 0.1% to 0.0000001% (Ridley 1993) so the average is approx. 0.0001%. If 1% are beneficial then the chance of them being beneficial is 0.000001% (1 in 100,000,000). A given beneficial mutation will therefore arise only once per 100,000,000 individuals whilst detrimental or neutral mutation will arise only once per 1,000,000 individuals (Condor, 1998)
So how can such an adverse rate produce adaptations particularly when most of the changes are either harmful or have no effect? According to Condor (1998) the process is not completely random ... there are several mechanisms at work such as mutation, gene recombination, sexual selection, natural selection etc. and secondly selection is cumulative.
So yeah, 1 in 100,000,000 has a benificial mutation. And the odds of the benificial mutations getting passed on to the next generation and spreading are small. And the process being repated is even smaller... And is 4 million years nearly enough for it all to happen?
And Adrian, originally I just asked a question... I don't know why you guys seem so hostile towards me.
Atheism: The beleif that there was nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything..... Makes perfect sense. :confused2:
