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Iname Junior Member (Idle past 3884 days) Posts: 28 Joined: |
I've heard it said from some that Macroevolution is a much different and more complex process than Microevolution. (Some creationists would say it's impossible)I've also heard it said that they are essentially the same process, most notably by Crashfrog....
quote: So how different is Micro/Macroevolution.
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AdminNosy Administrator Posts: 4754 From: Vancouver, BC, Canada Joined: |
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jimfgerard Inactive Member |
I think the problem here is mainly with the creationist habit of misusing 19th Century terminology like 'Catrostophism/Gradualism' and yes, micro/macro-evolution. They really need to do at least their minimal prerequisit research before beginning a debate though if they did so they wouldn't be creationists.
By definition the first rung of the macro-evolutionary ladder is speciation which, if anyone would care to look into it, is an observable phenomenon both indirectly and directly so the old creationist cannon that there's some magical wall keeping evolution proceeding from the formations of breeds within species to new species is nonsense to begin with. Cheers. Edited by jimfgerard, : I caught a typo democrats are sometimes inept and presently lost but republicans are mean scientifically ignorant hypocrites, I know what lesser of two evils is the most rational choice. |
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Chronos Member (Idle past 6225 days) Posts: 102 From: Macomb, Mi, USA Joined: |
They are the same process on a different timescale. So, not really different at all. Should we make a distinction between macroerosion and microerosion?
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ramoss Member (Idle past 611 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Macroevolution is the cumluation of a numerous microevolution events. If you consider a step a microevolutin event, think of macroevolution as going on a hike.
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5032 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
Do you deny different levels of selection exist then?
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Iname Junior Member (Idle past 3884 days) Posts: 28 Joined: |
What exactly do you mean by...
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2512 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
maybe a tiny selection level would be getting thicker hair.
major, or really large, selection level would be surviving the K-T extinction event. who knows what he means?I don't know of any one who's really figured out what Brad's saying--I defintely don't get 99% of what he writes. All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences
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Iname Junior Member (Idle past 3884 days) Posts: 28 Joined: |
quote: Yeah that's what I was thinking he meant (something along that line)but it seems to me that they both affect the population and the individual. I can't really think of any selection that would affect the population much differently than the individual.
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5032 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
I mean that idea remanded by Gould between these two pages.
quote: Edited by Brad McFall, : corrected wrongly scanned page.
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5032 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
I supposed, but I did not say, then, that the reason people ask about how different ma/mi may be in the context of c/e is that creationists have complained that evolutionists have moved into a discussion of macro evolution against clearly won creationist (in their minds) differences of adjectives "vertical" and "horizontal" change without a continuity seemingly inherent. Creationists have not noticed, it seems to me, (but I know this literature less well), that a stricture on this move to puntuated equilibrium and other macro issues could be designed against, if a clear method of finding external AND internal purposivness embryologically were taken out of neotinic literature. It might be possible to read Aggasiz that way, but I have not tried. Instead, I was trying to ask the question in terms of evolutionary debate itself where it was an answer for Gould that time does not matter when arguing against only genes as "the" level of selection.
I think that conceptually there can be others but I know of no way to determine what level of organizations are natural in this respect or regard. Edited by Brad McFall, : grammer
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5032 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
The issue surrounds the disintegration of sexual organisms during reproduction without (Gould's sense etc) displacing the organisms role as the natural selectee.
One first gets the notion of the "evolutionary individual" and then one can discuss if selection occurs. Notice the inversion in the use of the word "organism" that Gould points to (from Wilson and Sober) on the second page I scanned. What Gould banks on, and to an good extent I agree, I think the choice against the interactor mistakes the actually transmitted sense of the focus of evolutionary thought. Incidentially Phil Johnson seems to have made this same move to the post-modern locating the issue in the "information" below the cell level. But if gene selection is the only ultimate unit then it becomes very interesting how the gene is localized and to what organic parts as it becomes difficult to seperate where expensive machines are needed when if it was an organism (or population) the eyes work just fine for the purpose. Edited by Brad McFall, : title change
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2512 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
let me see if I got this right:
you brought up the different level of selection idea as (a parallel?) to the creationist demand of macro and micro evolution. in other words--both are pointless, or rather, the difference in each level is meaningless? All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5032 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
K, I only added that information because you wondered what I, BSM, meant. I really did not wish to bring up both sides c-e as we already can have more than one with macro-micro.
I was talking about the LEVELS OF SELECTION because Chronos said quote:but Gould's argumentation sets up different causal links on *differently* on different levels making macro and micro to be, in his vision something very different than something that can be linearly related (in it's differences) to the "arrow of time". I think this is the greatest possible conceptual change to evolutionary thinking in my generation. Dennet was challenged to image it. I have had the thought but have not clearly delimited levels (of selection) in mind. Williams and Dawkins are holding out on a different course and so may be some technocrats.
technocrats ideas?quote: There is however, in my learning, a means to extend the micro in to the macro which might slow down the advances conceptually that Gould wishes to accelerate (contra creationists in part sadly and in my view wrongly). Edited by Brad McFall, : link
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Creos use different terms so they can maintain their (otherwise unsupported and provably false) claim that evolution has never been observed. Even the most ardent creo knows that they can't claim with a straight face that organisms never change. Thus, they exploit a purported distinction between micro and macro. However, I've never seen a creo explain the distinction without relying on their undefined and undefinable term "kind." Thus, as far as creos are concerned, the difference between micro and macro is as meaningless as the "kind" nonsense.
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