On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:34:56 +0000 (UTC), 
William Morse  wrote:

[snip]

> We have had lots of good clean fun on this newsgroup debating the 
> relative contributions of drift and natural selection to evolution. 
> But as more and more sequence data becomes available, it is 
> becoming clear that both drifters and niche-pickers have missed the 
> boat. Gene, chromosome, and perhaps (if the above article is correct) 
> even genome duplication looms as a big kahuna in evolution, with drift 
> and selection only working their magic once duplication has created 
> the raw material.

Everyone agrees that mutation is important. 

The people who argue that mutation is what drives evolution are
called mutationalists.




Larry Moran
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