Yes, some Neanderthal genes were successful. Some of us have genetic variants that trace back to them.
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But in my example every gene is preserved from the initial population. No information is lost.
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Even the gene frequencies are the same. The only thing that changes is the correlations between genes.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @RiversofBlood68
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. From the genetic copy perspective, I agree that we're not changing much. (I've never taken
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the position that this is inherently a bad choice).
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I might say that it takes two people of the new group to equal the same genetic interest you had in one person of your ethnic group
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(but we're also assuming that we're simply spreading the copies more thinly among more people)
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Replying to @HbdNrx @RiversofBlood68
The point is that a race can disappear without reducing the fitness of its individuals or genes.
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Your idea of "genetic interest" is not an implication of evolutionary theory, because you didn't evolve to act in your "genetic interest".
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I wrote up a detailed explanation of this point: http://thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.ca/2017/05/does-evolutionary-theory-imply-genetic.html …
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I'll take a look at this soon
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