On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:25:42 +0000 (UTC), TomHendricks474 
 wrote:

>>This is not correct. Populations will evolve even if the environment is
>>perfectly stable. There are two important reasons why this is so. First,
>>a large part of evolution is due to random genetic drift and
"environmental
>>pressure" is irrelevant for this mechanism of evolution.
> 
> I have a follow up question.
> Doesn't this suggest that convergent evolution does not exist?

No.

> IF  the genetic drift pop and the original pop are both under the same
> stabilizing selection - how different would they be?

I don't understand the question. What two populations are you referring
to and what do you mean by "stabilizing selection"?

> They are both adapting to the same stable environment aren't they?

Can you rephrase the question so I can understand it?



Larry Moran
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