Sometimes when I watch Nature shows, it makes me wonder if beneficial things an animal learns is not coded up in DNA and passed on to an offspring. I mean, it's still a hypothesis of evolution, I just wonder if DNA has an intelligence that helps the evolution along. It could still be a deterministic process. Maybe it responds to positive stimulus or something. I mean, evolution doesn't have to totally mindless, does it? Has anyone ever done experiments on this?
@skytrooper1980 An organism's genetic makeup doesn't change over the course of its life, nor does it (normally) pass its offspring anything but exact copies of its own DNA. When a parent DOES pass altered genes, its obvious the change is a sort of "corruption" in the copy process, because most such mutations lead to negative consequences: still-births, deformities, etc. Very few mutations result in neutral or positive changes. Those that do are what we call "evolution."
Sometimes when I watch Nature shows, it makes me wonder if beneficial things an animal learns is not coded up in DNA and passed on to an offspring. I mean, it's still a hypothesis of evolution, I just wonder if DNA has an intelligence that helps the evolution along. It could still be a deterministic process. Maybe it responds to positive stimulus or something. I mean, evolution doesn't have to totally mindless, does it? Has anyone ever done experiments on this?
skytrooper1980 1 year ago
@skytrooper1980 An organism's genetic makeup doesn't change over the course of its life, nor does it (normally) pass its offspring anything but exact copies of its own DNA. When a parent DOES pass altered genes, its obvious the change is a sort of "corruption" in the copy process, because most such mutations lead to negative consequences: still-births, deformities, etc. Very few mutations result in neutral or positive changes. Those that do are what we call "evolution."
SomewhatStaid 1 year ago
this is very interesting
barca10abu 1 year ago
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ciceromatrix 1 year ago
@ciceromatrix - thank you velly much!
psybinetic 1 year ago