Tim writes, following me:

>> The second is that you're 
>> potentially losing a great number of phenotypes during the 
>> mutation's lifetime in the population due to either inviability or 
>> noncompetitiveness. It is the amelioration of this effect
>> which is the primary drving force underlying the evolution of 
>> error-correcting mechanisms.
>
>IMO, correcting deleterious errors is the primary drving 
>force underlying the evolution of error-correcting mechanisms.

While you make the motions of trying to contradict what I wrote, you are in
fact writing precisely the same thing. "Deleterious errors" are
assessedsolely
by the competitiveness of the affected phenotypes within their environment,
vis-a-vis their competitor species.

Ecological competitiveness governs the evolved species genome, not the other
way around.

Wirt Atmar
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