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To: BrandtMichaels
"Micro-evolution represents a loss of information - not a gain."

You are confusing Shannon (Information Theory) Entropy with Microevolution as characterized by minor changes over a relatively limited number of generations (i.e.; resulting from mutation, natural selection, artificial selection, gene flow and genetic drift). Microevolution is a loss in the fidelity of the transmission of the original data, but the resultant may contain a higher data content.

108 posted on 07/17/2009 11:42:27 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

So then you could take say a population of dogs - say full-bred rat terriers - and turn them back into wolves. Given enough time of course.


117 posted on 07/17/2009 11:54:38 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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