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  • #31
    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
    The gene is obviously already there for both varieties and gets expressed regularly no matter what the dominant population is. The only thing that changes is how many of each variation is getting eaten at any particular time.
    False. The gene for dark coloration is not obviously already there, since there are no examples of dark moths prior to 1800, and statistical analyses suggest that the dark gene first appeared circa 1819.
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    • #32
      Originally posted by Roy View Post
      False. The gene for dark coloration is not obviously already there, since there are no examples of dark moths prior to 1800, and statistical analyses suggest that the dark gene first appeared circa 1819.
      1. were anyone looking for dark moths? are there actually records of this?
      2. they would have been eaten and therefore very rare.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
        1. were anyone looking for dark moths? are there actually records of this?
        2. they would have been eaten and therefore very rare.
        1. Yes - there are large collections of British moths and butterflies from that period. None contain a dark Biston betularia collected before 1800.
        2. Since the dark variant gene is dominant and can only be passed on by dark variant moths, they would not merely be very rare, they would have gone extinct.

        You are suggesting that a dominant allele which severely reduces survivability would be retained for thousands of generations. It simply would not happen.
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        MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.

        seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...

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