@hbdchick @PoisonAero It's an extinct adaptation. And I thought we'd already shelved the disease thing. (Is cancer not pathological?)
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@Outsideness we can't shelve the disease thing if you keep using the word pathological. (~_^) most cancers prolly are in part pathological.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick Pathological =/= diseased. See #2 definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pathology …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick .. Still better line of confrontation, disease =/= infection, see basically anywhere. Wikipedia does fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick ... "The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body." -- Killing you counts.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness no. traits selected out via natural selection is not the same as an impairment of normal functioning of body.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Outsideness the one thing is *fitness,* the other is an impairment.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Outsideness no. but severe impairment gets weeded out at the level of the individual, of course. a whole pop will not be impaired.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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@hbdchick ... The further you push into deep time, the more brutal the pruning looks. There's no natural scale of selection.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Outsideness yup. i was suspecting this was part of the problem. selection happens at the individual (or even gene) level. (cc.@JayMan471)2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes - 1 more reply
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