Evolution may occur through a dependency graph, not the conventional simple tree

Post by sago » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 9:54 PM UTC

BariumBlue wrote: post #11

sago wrote: post #6

This is an article from an antievolution, pro-intelligent design, 'science news' website, run by the Discovery Institute. It is promoting a paper from their own journal. It was not peer-reviewed. And was created and funded based on ideological presuppositions. Meanwhile in the real-world, it has long been known that the evolutionary tree is a graph. But the degree of lateral gene transfer is typically thought to be s…

Initially looking at the article, it sounded intelligent, talking about measuring the fit of data and a theory. But yup, another article mentions the soul and talks about human exceptionalism. Still much more advanced than the average creationist who only offers doubt and a supernatural explanation

Post by cetico » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

pushrax wrote: post #10

sago wrote: post #6

This is an article from an antievolution, pro-intelligent design, 'science news' website, run by the Discovery Institute. It is promoting a paper from their own journal. It was not peer-reviewed. And was created and funded based on ideological presuppositions. Meanwhile in the real-world, it has long been known that the evolutionary tree is a graph. But the degree of lateral gene transfer is typically thought to be s…

Thanks for this reply. Since most people (myself included) are not familiar with the state of the art, this article sounds somewhat compelling, given it describes a plausible correction to the prolific idea of evolutionary trees. At least it's immediately clear they are overstating the impact of this work though, given the presentation style and inconsistency. Claiming the graph model and simultaneously dismissing LG…