Darwin in the Genome

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The moderator guidelines prohibit moderation of threads in which one participates, and since I'm participating in this discussion as Percy I am powerless here, so I only issued a general admonition.

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I, in the minnemooseus mode, have not taken part in this thread, or for that matter, much if any part, in any "Evolution" topic.As minnemooseus, I have previously started a "Suggestion" topic, which suggested that Peter Bourger and his ideas might be best served by (at least for now) confining them to one topic (such as William Scott has done with his flood ideas). I don't think that Peter Bourger's "scatter shot" presentation of his GUToB is doing a service to to either his ideas, or to the discussion being done in the various topics.I'm rather confident that the official forum guidelines can give me a weapon towards guiding Mr. Borger towards a more unified discourse on his theory, should push come to shove. Right now, I just wish to STRONGLY encourge Peter to take his theory to a single topic location, so that we can coherently discuss it's merits.There is a GUToB topic in the "Welcome, Visitors" forum. I don't know why it was started in that forum, but perhaps it best be moved to "Evolution".Maybe I should make this message it's own topic. We'll see.Adminnemooseus------------------
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In doing a search on another topic, I came across the thread on this forum regarding molecular evolution. I have just written a book on this topic, discussing the effect of natural selection on the mechanisms that generate genome variation [which is affected by a whole range og biochemical activities, from polymerases to proofreading to mismatch and other repair, to the sizes of nucleotide pools, to recombination].
I have come to the conclusion that through natural selection, many mutations move away from being completely random.
It is important to note that it was not Darwin who suggested that variation was generated by completely random changes in DNA, and, in fact, the concept that the mechanisms that generate genome variation fall under natural selection not only is consistent with the Darwinian framework, but also gives us a deeper sense of the potential power of natural selection.
For those interested in more detail, there is a links page at http://www.DarwinGenome.info that includes other writing on this subject, including the conference volume "Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution". There also will be a review in the 2003 volume of Annual Reviews of Microbiology.

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I think this is too good of a topic to let it die, but it sure seems to me that it is getting badly wounded.Time for the participents to refresh themselve, on the content of the early part of the topic?As always, I may be wrong.Adminnemooseus------------------
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