TSZ Allan Miller says Natural Selection has to fail for evolution to work
It is sufficient that NS does not act too strongly against, not that it must act for, a particular change. Allan Miller Comment on crossposted thread, Blindwatchbreaker Allan is wrong in using the word “sufficient”. The correct statement “It is necessary but not sufficient for NS not to act too strongly” Notwithstanding Allan Miller’s wrong choice of words, he rightly echoes the words of three scientists I’ve quoted before. For evolution of complexity to happen, Natural Selection must often be inhibited, Natural Selection is not the mechanism of innovation it is the INHIBITOR. many genomic features could not have emerged without a near-complete disengagement of the power of natural selection Michael Lynch opening, The Origins of Genome Architecture and a Read More ›