"John Edser"  wrote in message
news:...
> NAS wrote:-
> 
> >  "Perplexed in Peoria" 
wrote in message
>  news:...
> > > "Anon."
 wrote in message
> > > news:cb2fdq$21bh$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> > > > But it is - in finite populations, you get an excess of
homozygotes,as
> > > > any student of population genetics should know.
> > > Dooohh!  Ignore my other post.  Reality gives an excess of
>  heterozygotes.
> > > The Hardy-Weinberg "law" gives an excess of homozygotes.
> > To clarify, are we assuming no selfing here? If not, I'm struggling to
> > see why you get the result that you do.
> 
> NAS:-
> Whoops, I was confused as to whether I was responding to NAS or BOH.
> I'll watch for BOH's answer as to why finite populations affect
> HW in his response to Bill Hunt.
> 
> JE:-
> Why not simply initial all quoted text so that
> anybody can easily see who said what, as Josh
> our esteemed moderator recommended.
>

You have answered your own question, John. I didn't type the above
text.

Surely it is easier to just quote as many lines of "X wrote", "Y
wrote" etc as required at the top of the post, and then simply count
the number of ">"s preceding each line of text to work out who typed
it?
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