So, if you take the white footed mouse that lives among the beach grass in the sandy dunes on Cape Cod......the white footed mouse has a brown coat.
One of ‘em has a single random mutation in the DNA sequence of one of the genes that controls coat color.....and this mutation alters the gene such that it is expressed as a blond/albino mouse.......or even just a lighter color. This isn’t something “that was there to begin with”, this is a random mutation in one base pair that happens to get expressed in the phenome.
That mouse, through natural selection...the owls and other predators hiding in the pitch pines aqnd scrub oak couldn’t see ‘em as well, has a higher genetic fitness and say 100 generations down the line, both the phenome and genome of that particular mouse species in that particular hectare of studied beach has changed compared to their woodland cousins half a mile away............not because of something that was “already there”.....because of a mutation in one base pair of a gene that is expressed and passed on to the next generation.....that happened to benefit the genetic fitness of the individual (due to natural selection).....and creating a new focal subspecies.
That’s not “natural selection”......that’s “evolution” (a change in the inherited trais of a population) that includes “natural selection” as a mechanism to increase genetic fitness and incorporate a mutated gene into the population.
....but that isn’t possible, eh?
[[One of ‘em has a single random mutation in the DNA sequence of one of the genes that controls coat color.....and this mutation alters the gene such that it is expressed as a blond/albino mouse.......or even just a lighter color. This isn’t something “that was there to begin with”, this is a random mutation in one base pair that happens to get expressed in the phenome.]]
Yes it was- here’s the catch- the info in the metainfo was always there to begin with to allow species psecific changes, and to deal with changes to the genome in a very species specific manner. species specific metainfo allows and deals with changes within species specific parameters- We know htis htrough 100’s of years of genetic experiments, breeding programs, and etc- species have very specific paramters which are controlled by their own unique species specific metainformaiton which is forward looking inthat it anticipates change within hte parameters-
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