Paul’s Blog

I’m certainly no expert on population genetics, but some things just seem logical to me, yet are apparently completely lost on others. It’s when something so obvious, is so easily overlooked that I’m tempted to imagine that perhaps human Ostriches marry positions, and abandon honesty inquiry.

For instance, the word “Species” is a human invention, made up to explain phenotypic and reproductive functional differences created by GENES. Within or between species genetic differences have the same general properties of INFLUENCE over phenotype as they do over function (correct me on this point, if I’m wrong). IF (big if) that is true, then it’s perfectly logical to also assume that if specimen A and specimen B have large differences in phenotype, but share the same (or very similar) experiences, environment, and nutrition, it makes no difference whether they are the same species or not, in causally attributing those differences to genetics, rather than to some Ostrich philosophy of being “born equal”.