its known as systematic generalization. organisms with a larger gene pool tend to veer toward the mean. its actually an evolutionary process. organisms which exibit the generalist traits are less likley to be subject to natural selection since they can tolerate a wider variety of conditions.
and as far as corn beatles, science cannot be ecplained by one example. as with most rules in the natural sciences, there are a few exceptions, but those tend to be one in a billion. it's just dumb luck.
That's just the one example I could think of at the moment; a lot more have been found in mice, drosophilia, and various plants than in beetles.
And it's more than simply an element that's detrimental to the fitness of the organism, but also at the same time good enough at propogating itself (through either killing off offspring or gametes without it, segregation disorder, and a few other means) that the loss can sustain itself to without driving extinction (some have sex-biasing results, such as all-sterile males).
But I'm not wanting a general explaination of them. I want to know how anyone advocating Intelligent Design could defend their position with the existance of such a problem.
Bah, I can't believe I'm not explaining what I mean well. By 'good enough at propogating itself', I mean those elements which guarantee themselves more than a statistically even chance at appearing in offspring.
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and as far as corn beatles, science cannot be ecplained by one example. as with most rules in the natural sciences, there are a few exceptions, but those tend to be one in a billion. it's just dumb luck.
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And it's more than simply an element that's detrimental to the fitness of the organism, but also at the same time good enough at propogating itself (through either killing off offspring or gametes without it, segregation disorder, and a few other means) that the loss can sustain itself to without driving extinction (some have sex-biasing results, such as all-sterile males).
But I'm not wanting a general explaination of them. I want to know how anyone advocating Intelligent Design could defend their position with the existance of such a problem.
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