Switching

... genetic drift that forces them forever apart. In some cases speciation happens very slowly by taking small learning steps, one gene or epigentic switching change at a time. In other cases it is immediate, with no transitional fossils possible. How long it would take an isolated genome to slowly ...

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... genetic drift that forces them forever apart. In some cases speciation happens very slowly by taking small learning steps, one gene or epigentic switching change at a time. There is here no single genome change was an event that made a new species. In other cases speciation follows a very sudden ...

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... the "hobbit" connection! What I am trying to do is better explain the island effect, which in turn might help explain epigenetic switching of genes towards a goal such as to become smaller in response to the niche to be filled. Some of the genetic medical conditions hobbit morphology ...

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... relatively the same. Where epigenetics switches that on we could become the giant eyed as relatively fast as Darwin's island finches change genome switching to meet seasonal climate demands. One possibility for chemical signals that switch it on could come be surviving off giant reptiles and dwarf ...

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I think it's possible epigenetic switching has what you would call "genetic drift" taking us in that direction. Would not be a survival of the big-eyes struggle. Reason would be in how genes are being copied or increasingly expressed. ...

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