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To: Diamond
If the process is broken, and useless, why are these genes still around, in Darwinian terms?

What is the selective pressure to remove them?

373 posted on 04/19/2006 2:43:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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What is the selective pressure to remove them?

The metabolic energy cost of manufacturing them. If most of your DNA is "filler" what is the selective advantage of excessive spreading of functionless replicators? You need to explain how such DNA arose in the first place and why it is not speedily eliminated, since it contributes little or nothing to the fitness of the organism.

Cordially,

527 posted on 04/20/2006 8:27:13 AM PDT by Diamond
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