Thursday, February 19, 2009

A Short Modern Definition of Evolution & Natural Selection

Evolution is a change in gene frequencies (%) in the gene pool (the population of individuals).

Natural Selection is the biased change in gene frequencies - biased in the direction of improvement, improvement for survival and reproduction of those very same genes.
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Unweaving the Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
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