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Balanced lethal systems (genetics)
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Great diagram
Ah this actually cleared things up for me. Yellow coat is probably more evolutionary beneficial, and then even if a quarter of the young die its no big deal, just lay more eggs or whatever.
Fascinating
The part that says this goes against evolution doesn't really make sense to me.
It goes against the simplified idea of evolution, in that, having a huge amount of off-spring die for no reason should generally be selected against since it's wasteful.
But evolution isn't a straight march to a finish line, it can only use what it has to work with and it's entirely possible for a branch of it to get stuck in weird specific ways that aren't helpful.
It goes against evolution theory.
This shows how imperfect our knowledge on evolution is.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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