tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post5915688009636045573..comments2023-09-28T21:40:05.328+10:00Comments on Dr Clam's accidental blog: The Crux of the MatterMarco Parigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-36643491253848170802008-02-18T16:05:00.000+11:002008-02-18T16:05:00.000+11:00In the 80's, I was all about Storm. Hubba hubba. T...In the 80's, I was all about Storm. Hubba hubba. Then Halle Berry kinda ruined the fantasy.<BR/><BR/>Nowadays I'm swinging back round to KP.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203948349102824828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-6431711930397397282008-02-14T16:24:00.000+11:002008-02-14T16:24:00.000+11:00Especially Kitty Pryde, if I remember correctly......Especially Kitty Pryde, if I remember correctly...<BR/><BR/>Or do I have you and me confused again? The 80s were such a blur...Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-48414963691799099062008-02-14T15:44:00.000+11:002008-02-14T15:44:00.000+11:00I am not remotely qualified to participate in this...I am not remotely qualified to participate in this discussion, but I am interested in mutants.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203948349102824828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-8309320234188865802008-02-12T22:00:00.000+11:002008-02-12T22:00:00.000+11:00I would like to add that my vision of "regressive ...I would like to add that my vision of "regressive evolution" is kind of as follows:<BR/><BR/>A) A new kind of stress is applied to a population of organisms.<BR/><BR/>B) The organisms respond by generating gross mutations a,b,c,d,e,f and g in offspring. These mutations are of reasonably large effect and offspring a might be a smaller phenotype, while offspring b might be bigger (ie the mutations will be going in different directions).<BR/><BR/>C) The surviving offspring (say b and e) will have a new gene that tags the stress signal to the mutation that it was given and adds a weighting.<BR/><BR/>D) Those that don't survive will be deemed an unsuccessful response to that stress and the weighting will be lost in a standard Darwinian way.<BR/><BR/>E) When that same stress signal happens again many generations hence the mutation response will be given a higher weighting to that which survived last time.<BR/><BR/>F) Thus the second time for every a,c,d,f and g mutation generated in offspring two b and two e mutations will be generated when that same stress signal is applied.<BR/><BR/>G) Thus appropriate mutations to different stresses will be learnt even if the stress only repeats every hundred or thousand generations.Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-71225517869799788452008-02-12T21:40:00.000+11:002008-02-12T21:40:00.000+11:00However this really opens up a door to: a theory t...<I>However this really opens up a door to: a theory that postulates selective 'good' mutations in the direction of better fitness ... </I><BR/><BR/>I unreseverdly withdraw this statement on the grounds that it isn't scientific.<BR/><BR/>(4) Is essentially what I thought this statement was saying - but (4) says it so much better and in a tidy scientific format.Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.com