John Edser wrote:
>>JT:-
>>I would say that those who posit genetic drift as a major process in
>>evolution are devolving.  They are postulating ignorance as knowledge.
>>I think the elevation of know-nothing-ism may be a sign of inbreeding.
> 
> 
> LM:-
> Now that's an interesting point of view ....
> You've just insulted most professsional evolutionary biologists,
> every population geneticist, and the vast majority of molecular
> biologists. That tells me more about you than it does about them.
> 
> JE:-
> Mr Moran is just emotionally defending 
> his own tribe. Drift is temporal variation, 
> nothing more or less. 

What is evolution if it isn't temporal variation, too?  Indeed, the 
standard definition of evolution could be summarised as "temporal 
variation, nothing more or less" as well.

Bob

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