A test for claimed knowledge of how macroevolution occurs

What I was trying to show was that you can get variation even in the absence of microevolution, the two are not necessarily linked. So the genes I mentioned would likely have the same sequences in all the original created kinds since they perform the same function.
But as the parent populations (the original kinds) they would accumulate errors during replication which will be neutral as they do not change the proteins (neutral mutations) and as the parent population split into subsequent daughter populations they would carry these neutral mutations with them like a parent to a child (which is what I meant with familial relationship of variation).If all the original kinds were created separately then each would be experiencing it’s own set of neutral mutations, so for example you wouldn’t expect humans and chimps to have less variation than chimps and gorillas. But of course that is exactly what we do see, which allows us to put humans, chimps, gorillas and other apes into the same family tree.None of this deals with evolution itself, but I’ll try to tackle that in a follow up post. Will wait to see your reply to this post first.

Thanks for clarifying, most of it does make more sense now. Yes. Lost me completely here. Humans AND chimps "have less variation?" It's probably because you thlnk of variation in terms of mutations and I don't but I still can't figure this out.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

But where does that variation come from? Mutations are just a name for errors during cell replication. And at the moment I've talked about cytochrome genes which are involved in aerobic respiration in the cell, so serve same purpose in all eukaryotes; and mutations which don't change the proteins they produce, so are not affected by selection as they don't alter the design.Edited by Meddle, : non-neutral typo

Curious, Faith: Can you define what you mean by this method?Curious.

FWIW, I think you mean ... you wouldn’t expect less variation between humans and chimps than between chimps and gorillas ... ( and not less variation overall).or ... you would expect more variation between humans and chimps than between chimps and gorillas ...Good job.Enjoy