From: me22over7@gmail.com   
      
   On 17/12/2025 4:45 am, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 12/15/25 7:53 PM, MarkE wrote:   
   >> Larry Moran offers this analysis:   
   >>   
   >> "...A small number of these neutral mutations will become fixed in the   
   >> population and it's these fixed mutations that produce most of the   
   >> changes in the genome of evolving populations. According to the   
   >> neutral theory of population genetics, the number of fixed neutral   
   >> mutations corresponds to the mutation rate. Thus, in every evolving   
   >> population there will be 100 new fixed mutations per generation. This   
   >> means that fixation of 22 million mutations would take 220,000   
   >> generations. The average generation time of humans and chimps is 27.5   
   >> years so this corresponds to about 6 million years. That's close to   
   >> the time that humans and chimps diverged according to the fossil   
   >> record. What this means is that evolutionary theory is able to explain   
   >> the differences in the human genome—it has explanatory power."   
   >> https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-many-regulatory-sites-in-   
   >> human.html   
   >   
   > Humans evolved so much because we evolved under a Distributive Computing   
   > model. It wasn't time -- or not just time -- it's that "the problem" of   
   > our evolution was being worked on by numerous populations,   
   > simultaneously.   
   >   
   > You are obviously "Classically Trained," and I do mean "Trained."   
   >   
   > You think in terms of linear models. And this is not how nature works.   
   >   
   > Sorry.   
   >   
   > "Evolution" isn't only in one direction, time isn't the only factor.   
   >   
   > Necessity is a massive factor.   
   >   
   > Take a population well adapted to an environment and then change that   
   > environment. If and only if that population has the genetic capacity   
   > to adapt, it will leave descendants... it will evolve. DNA that   
   > previously lay on the on the fringes can "Take over," so to speak, in   
   > a single generation... no "Clock like" changes.   
      
   Whatever the case, there remains the question of where the large amount   
   of additional functionality came from.   
      
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