New discovery proves 'selfish gene' exists
June 20th, 2008A new discovery by a scientist from The University of Western Ontario provides conclusive evidence which supports decades-old evolutionary doctrines long accepted as fact.
Since renowned British biologist Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion") introduced the concept of the 'selfish gene' in 1976, scientists the world over have hailed the theory as a natural extension to the work of Charles Darwin.
In studying genomes, the word 'selfish' does not refer to the human-describing adjective of self-centered behavior but rather to the blind tendency of genes wanting to continue their existence into the next generation. Ironically, this 'selfish' tendency can appear anything but selfish when the gene does move ahead for selfless and even self-sacrificing reasons.
For instance, in the honey bee colony, a complex social breeding system described as a 'super-organism,' the female worker bees are sterile. The adult queen bee, selected and developed by the worker bees, is left to mate with the male drones.
Because the 'selfish' gene controlling worker sterility has never been isolated by scientists, the understanding of how reproductive altruism can evolve has been entirely theoretical – until now.
Working with Peter Oxley of the University of Sydney in Australia, Western biology professor Graham Thompson has, for the first time-ever, isolated a region on the honey bee genome that houses this 'selfish' gene in female workers bees.
This means that the 'selfish' gene does exist, not just in theory but in reality. "We don't know exactly which gene it is, but we're getting close."
Source: University of Western Ontario
Dec 23, 2008 |
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Genes, Earth's primal organisms even when interdependent members of their genome communal cooperative, evolve in response to their survival survival requirements, which is THEIR CULTURE.
Darwinism starts with pre-Archaea genes:
From http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]&p=409
- Genes are organisms, interdependent members of genes communes, genomes, all continuously undergoing evolution directed towards survival as long as possible, for maintaining Earth's biosphere as long as possible.
- Culture is a ubiquitous biological entity and is the major effector of genetic evolution, of capabilities and attributes selected for survival.
- The major course of natural selection is NOT via random mutations followed by survival, but via interdependent, interactive and interenhencing selection of biased replication routes by genes at their alternative-splicing-steps junctions, effected by the cultural feedback of the second stratum multicells organism or monocells community to their prime stratum genes-genome organisms.
Dov Henis
http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]&p=372
Puzzled why even Darwinians do not comprehend that Darwinism starts all the way back with Life's day one, with the pre-archaea not-yet-genomed-celled genes...
"Homo Sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
- Edward O. Wilson
Meanwhile everybody should calm down. This story has exactly nothing to do with macroevolution. dawkins and his fellow secular scientists need to show how DNA arose via chance, time and natural processes - wi/o the aid of repair enzymes. KB6 quoted from creation-basher & quasi-philosopher E.O. Wilson who spoke about the "force" that made us: natural selection. Four of his fellow atheists disagree with him, Natural selection can act only on those biological properties that already exist; it cannot create properties in order to meet adaptational needs. - Noble, Noble, Schad, MacInnes, Parasitology, Lea & Febiger, 1989, p. 516.