Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: katieHaylor on 01/10/2018 13:43:24
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Kyle asks:
While I see that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming from genetics/molecular biology, the fossil record, and so on and so forth (so many categories could be mentioned), I have not seen evidence for the notion that the driving mechanism of evolution is natural selection of beneficial mutations, usually DNA copying errors. I’ve searched for experimental confirmation of this and can’t seem to find it. How can we assert this is the mechanism? How do we know this, experimentally?
Can you help?
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Charles Darwin was a pigeon fancier. He thought all breeds of pigeons were descended from the rock pigeon, this has apparently now been confirmed by DNA sequencing see https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/charles-darwin-theory-evolution-pigeons-rock-dna-430600.
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... I have not seen evidence for the notion that the driving mechanism of evolution is natural selection of beneficial mutations, usually DNA copying errors. I’ve searched for experimental confirmation of this and can’t seem to find it. How can we assert this is the mechanism? How do we know this, experimentally?
Mutations occur, fact. Some are beneficial, (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Lenski#Lenski.27s_long-term_E._Coli_evolution_experiment_and_intelligent_design) some neutral, some harmful,
(the latter category is evidence against the mutations being the work of a hidden intelligent design (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Intelligent_design)er).
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution#Arguments_against_theistic_evolution (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution#Arguments_against_theistic_evolution)