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To: MCHVE who wrote (68719)	10/10/2015 6:42:54 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

That was a difficult paper to process. I thought this paragraph tied much of the material together...but the subsequent details are sometimes lost (to laypersons such as I) in the specialised language. "...That is, genes can replicate themselves, but only within organisms. To spread within populations, they depend on their ability to affect the reproduction of their bearers; they depend on their effects on phenotypes. Therefore, selection should be seen as acting on phenotypes (6), and selectable variation means phenotypic variation, whether it has a genetic component or not. It is adaptive evolution, or a genetic response to selection, that requires genetic variation among the selected entities, not selection (differential reproductive success) itself..." I always go to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for very encompassing and thorough articles in understandable language. plato.stanford.edu