Tim Tyler  wrote:
Catherine Woodgold wrote or quoted:

> > CW:-
> > That's just the sort of thing I was talking about
> > when I posted the following, a long time ago:
> > Evolution of the speed of evolution.
> [...]
> > Consider a species where the female does all the work of 
> > raising the children.  Now suppose a female suddenly arises 
> > who can clone herself. All of her children are females with 
> > exactly the same genes as herself, and also able to clone 
> > themselves.  Instead of averaging one male and one female 
> > surviving offspring as is average and normal in a steady 
> > sexually-reproducing population, each clone would have on 
> > average about two surviving female cloned offspring 
> > (assuming that raising males is no harder or easier than 
> > raising females).  So the number of clones would increase 
> > exponentially, doubling each generation.

> TT:-
> The so-called "two-fold cost" of sex.

JE:-
Doubling each generation is best illustrated
within Pascale's Triangle illustrating a polynomial 
distribution pattern which represents an absolute
maximum reproductive rate. Neo Darwinists employ the 
bi-nominal distribution pattern to provide a random 
distribution for two alleles at one locus termed 
the Hardy Weinberg distribution. Allowing the
variable s (for selection) into this distribution 
allows them to predict how two alleles at one locus
can produce a significantly skewered distribution. 
My point is: any selective effect must REDUCE 
reproduction to be BELOW the absolute maximum
possible: doubling each generation. This being
the case the only maximum that really matters
is something else..


Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edsedr{at}tpg.com.au


John Edser
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