A subpopulation of sociopaths is GTO for social organisms, but a subpopulation of autists might be GTO for a social culture @DoTheWeirdStuff
@St_Rev @DoTheWeirdStuff I know what gaussian blurring is but I'm going to need more explanation here
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@sarahdoingthing ...converge over time to a single optimal code. But that only applies if the environment is 100% predictable. -
@St_Rev we were just talking about variability - why do you think predictability determines this? (cool insight) - 6 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing It seems like it would be hard have a 'mutate this gene but leave that one alone OK' mechanism. But who knows? -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing My recollection is that there are multiple mechanisms for adjusting mutability of parts of genome. - 5 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing If there's variation in environment over time & space, the ability to maintain variation in genome is meta-selected for.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing@DoTheWeirdStuff OK. Look at all the individual genomes of the members of a species. They form a sort of statistical cloud.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing i.e. the ideal strategy is a 'cloud' of separate variant strategies. This is especially seen with the MHC...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing ...less with strongly conserved genes. But variability itself, w/exception of MHC, is probably mostly a global property.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing On a first pass you might expect natural selection to force that variation to zero, so that all individual genomes...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing nb. In the bacteria study loss of DNA repair emerged quickly but regaining it was v. slow. Easier to deactivate a gene.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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