Natural Selection (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, August 12, 2011, 14:48 (4662 days ago) @ xeno6696

Natural Selection is the combined act of random mutations and epigentics, acted upon by pressure of selection. Selection can't happen without pressure.-I use the word competition with the environmentqal pressure or rival species pressure.
 
> I think we can agree that evolution is a function of generations, yes? -Yes
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> This is the most intuitive stage. An organism is a function of ALL selection events in its history, known and unknown. -Agreed using your terms. -> We may have to just part on disagreement if this doesn't work... I'm at a loss to describe this in any other way... Evolution is a function of natural selection. -Evolution is the result of natural selection, a process which choses among candidates presented by passive processes and epigenetics (I'm reading Shapiro)-> Our key disagreement here is in the different uses of Natural Selection by scientists vs. laypeople.-Not the way Shapiro looks at it.
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> [EDITED] Some minor edits to give more (I hope) clarity...)-Your math example, sorry.....Yipe!!!