Sticking a fork in Natural Selection (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, December 12, 2011, 01:18 (4709 days ago) @ David Turell

Perspectivism. NS IS responsible for what we see!
No event-->no selection-->no observed change in an organism.
The species is in stasis.
Event-->selection-->observed change in an organism.

The species has become "something else."

The process of natural selection is ultimately the final filter for survival. But NS passively waits until rival forms appear and then what is presented to it is actively chosen. NS is an active process of what is presented to it. NS has nothing to do with the formation of the presented forms. NS has nothing to do until the rivals are presented to it.

I don't see in your response and in my words above--where we disagree.

"What we see" is synonymous with "observe" and it is THAT description that I'm after. In the horse example, we *observe* fifteen places on the branches of of life for modern horses. If you look at mesohippus to megahippus consider that each fossil is a snapshot of time: all the changes collected over time and selected against resulted in the transition to megahippus. At each snapshot, we have untold numbers of selection events going on. The direct cause for us witnessing hypohippus, was a series of selection events acting upon the genome of mesohippus and the intermediate form kalobattipus.

The genome does all the work. But the *cause* for our witnessed change are the events that pushed these organisms to take the forms we've witnessed.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"