Talk:Postdarwinism

(5) for neo-Darwinism, the main role of sexual reproduction is to provide new genetic variants, whereas for post-Darwinism the importance of sexual reproduction comprises (a) the creation of species, and (b) forgetting of the unnecessary, i.e., making of the genetic memory dynamic;

Jonano, this underplays the role of sexual reproduction, as seen by post-darwinists in:
 * Repair
 * Active combinatorial design

Post-darwinists don't see the crossing over between chromosomes as 'random', but as gene directed, jointly by the two organisms. Inactive, overactive and recently changed genes are tagged and this affects the likelihoods of crossovers. In particular a defective gene copy may be tagged and be more likely to be lost. Post darwinists point to known mechanisms in the cell that can and do do such tagging. The organisms can 'make bets' on the gene combination most likely to be beneficial and shorten the odds over random recombination. This is active combinatorial design.

Sexual selection also allows an individual to actively seek out a complementary partner, so repairing damage that is not repairable with the information in their own genome. Again differential tagging can give a better than 50:50 chance of picking the superior version of a gene. JC 13:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Who is the author of this text above? please click on signature when you write a text, just a suggestion.--Jonano 12:03, 4 July 2007 (UTC) Check the recent changes log. JC 13:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Also, life is cruel lottery currently. We need to change that.--Jonano 12:03, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes and No. From a naive perspective classical 'Eugenics' might seem like a good idea. The problem is, as history has shown many times, we are too stupid to go about it correctly. JC 13:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

The future will be smarter than the past, we must thank our past, but I give big power to the future. I'm sure there will be better views on how to stop evolution and cruelty and I hope happyness will be better taken. Pardon my love to the future ;-)--Jonano 16:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC)