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Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by ouid on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:29PM (#14616776)
Are you seriously arguing that mutation, as a mechanism, isn't heritable?
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Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by hackinthebochs on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:35PM (#14616796)
Spare me these rhetorical responses. If you have a point to make, just make it.
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Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by ouid on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:20PM (#14621409)
The only reason that your DNA has a copy error rate is because your parents DNA had a copy error rate.
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Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by hackinthebochs on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:04PM (#14621840)
Right, so we inherit the mechanism for replication, which has an intrinsic error rate. But the machinery isn't being selected for its ability to create random errors, that's just a byproduct.
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