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[-] silver13@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

And the longest reach comes from... random mutation?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

How to say that you didn't read Lamarck without saying that you didn't read Lamarck. Even Darwin agreed with him.

[-] weeabooextract@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

You seriously believe in Lamarck? Like, I don't know, I'm not a native speaker, maybe I'm missing something.

How many fucking times do we have to repeat this: TRAITS ACQUIRED DURING LIFETIME ARE NON-INHERITABLE

If you lose your fingers in an industrial accident, your children aren't going to be born fingerless, are they?

Giraffes don't have long necks because one little giraffe long, long ago tried really, really hard to grow a longer neck, but because giraffes who had been born with longer necks could compete better than those without, and pass on their genes. And they got those necks due to mutations.

Environmental pressure selects for benefitial mutations, while the mutations themselves are random. That's literally the mechanism of evolution through natural selection.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Neither am I a native speaker so I worded my joke poorly. I elaborated in another comment but let me point out that in epigenetics, traits gained during lifetime are inherited, but within the range of what mutations "allow".

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago
[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

But not by Darwin. The modern evolution theory is a synthesis of Darwin and Mendel. I should have elaborated but the joke was that Darwin didn't have mutations in his theory yet and when you stick to Darwin Claus, there ain't no mutations

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, this thread is about Darwin Claus. Not other (scientifically) magical science peeps. I'm sorry people didn't get your joke.

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

There is natural variation between individuals.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Natural as in naturally occurring mutations?

[-] Beryl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

To be fair to him, this type of variations could also be due to epigenetics, although he obviously has a rather fuzzy understanding of what he's talking about.

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