My views come more from listening to experts and not from looking at specifics. When studying bioinformatics that’s basically what they told us about the result of researching genetics with computer models. Afterwards when talking to experts, I also heard the same sentiments that most claims of group selection shouldn’t be trusted.
I too have heard that group selection is not well believed it just seems so out of sync with my understanding of systems theory that I’m skeptical about taking people’s word on it.
Since we can sequence genomes we know how many changes need to happen for the difference between organisms. We know that gene drift destroys features for which there isn’t selection pressure to keep them like our ability to make our own Vitamin C.
It seems to me like the moving pieces that are needed for computer models are there, so I would trust experts opinions of people on the topic more strongly then would be warranted 30 years ago where opinions were mostly based on intellectual arguments.
On of the finding of data-driven models of evolution of the last decades, is that group selection mostly isn’t strong enough to create effects.
Hmm, which models?
My views come more from listening to experts and not from looking at specifics. When studying bioinformatics that’s basically what they told us about the result of researching genetics with computer models. Afterwards when talking to experts, I also heard the same sentiments that most claims of group selection shouldn’t be trusted.
I too have heard that group selection is not well believed it just seems so out of sync with my understanding of systems theory that I’m skeptical about taking people’s word on it.
Since we can sequence genomes we know how many changes need to happen for the difference between organisms. We know that gene drift destroys features for which there isn’t selection pressure to keep them like our ability to make our own Vitamin C.
It seems to me like the moving pieces that are needed for computer models are there, so I would trust experts opinions of people on the topic more strongly then would be warranted 30 years ago where opinions were mostly based on intellectual arguments.