Punctuated Equilibrium support from research? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, December 19, 2009, 15:55 (5234 days ago) @ David Turell

Here are two entries about the same study, which purports to show, that 80% of the time, new species appear from a single event, not multiple slow steps.
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> http://www.physorg.com/news179737267.html
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> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08630.html
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> Note the author's comments that Darwinists will not like his findings.-Ah, I can kind of see now why you use the term "Darwinist." I certainly like this model even if I can't get access to the paper itself. -Even if the view of evolution changes however, I still don't understand how it would support design over chance. Those genes will still need to be transferred to a future generation--to beat the same drum--so differentiating this model from the darwinian can quite simply be a semantic argument based on what constitutes a major change. To resolve it you'd have to really look at the DNA line by line from the "parent" to the "child," and come up with a % difference that is more than the mutation rate provided by sexual reproduction alone. In this test I'm going to be strict and say that a major change is only that which is beyond what one would expect from typical sexual reproduction. It would also have to be a trait transmissible to the "child's" children.-I say this because sometimes drastic events happen with minor changes in genetic coding, there's no guarantee that a jump in phenotype results from a "drastic change" in genotype.

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