Comments on: The Nematode Vulva and the Nature of Evolution https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/29/the-nematode-vulva-and-the-nat-1/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Larry Moran https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/29/the-nematode-vulva-and-the-nat-1/#comment-5808 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:24:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/29/the-nematode-vulva-and-the-nat-1/#comment-5808 Greg says,

Many biologists chose to be a Neutral Theorist or an Adaptationist. In my view, each of these approaches is strongly supported by data that serves to falsify the other. This must mean that both views are wrong, or at least, grossly oversimplified.

The main divisions are Pluralist and Adaptationist. I don’t know any biologists who suggest that random genetic drift is the only mechanism of evolution.

]]> By: RNB https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/29/the-nematode-vulva-and-the-nat-1/#comment-5807 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:03:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/29/the-nematode-vulva-and-the-nat-1/#comment-5807 I’m no expert in this subject, but doesn’t this finding correlate with the result I saw in one of the posts down at the Beagle Project blog?Of course that’s how science works, evidence gradually stacking up more on one side or the other. So I guess adaptive selection is slowly trumping neutral selection.Sorry if I’m bringing up a totally unrelated subject, but I recall that Beagle post especially as I confess that I didn’t really understand the different points of view at all before I read it, and perhaps I still do not.

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