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... still viable centromeres there would be a tug-of-war type situation causing an extreme pulling force related imbalance, and where there is enough motor protein force could pull the poles to the center line which would result in unsuccessful meiosis possibly cell death. Where the spindles are bringing ...

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Yes, biohazard. I agree with you. it's like looking at the weather in 2D when it is a 3D system. But the point I see here, that you may not agree with, is that NS is not directional, but evolution is supposed to be. To say that NS is directional is to say that the proper sequence of environments jus...

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Robots can reproduce, they are called assembly lines. We can program a robot to do just about anything we can mimic with basic motor skills or representation of data, such as show emotion (program facial expressions), play soccer (program ball tactics) or fight wars (program heat sensitivity ...

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This would tend to neutralize NS in theory--a trade off good in one environment and bad in another. So what happens when the environment changes or they move to a different environment? This is exactly what natural selection is all about. An organism cannot have all the possible traits and characte...

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biohazard wrote Here's an example of evolution being observed: http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/ (Richard Lenski's project on E. coli evolution) My first question is what kind of trade offs did this alleged evolution incur which is apparent in research such as this? Kind of like --did you know the fas...

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