ArbutusPhD

ArbutusPhD t1_j9akdec wrote

Essentially, the rate of mutation in individuals may remain constant, but without some environnemental pressure exerting a selective effect on individuals with advantageous mutations, there is no reason for those mutations to become reinforced each generation.

If 1/1,000 people randomly have slightly longer fingers, but there is no pressure in the environnement that grants long-fingered people an advantage reproducing, you won’t see an increase in long-fingered people over time; there will remain a roughly 1/1,000 chance that anyone you meet is long-fingered.

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ArbutusPhD t1_j4qq7ar wrote

He is clearly a radicalized extremist, and this is about his violent extension of his extreme philosophy, and not necessarily that he is a republican. That said, what is the overlap between the beliefs that led to this act and beliefs held by large numbers of American Republicans?

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