Kim: Excuse my ignorance, but what's the contradiction?
WT At 09:36 PM 7/8/2006, Kim van der Linde wrote: >Hi all, > >I am having an interesing discussion at the moment about Natural >selection. The context is a single population of individuals that, due >to changes in the environment, are now maladapted and the population is >reducing in size. Based on the often used definition of differential >reproduction, when there is not much to differentiate with, there is no >longer differential selection, and as such, no natural selection. >However, they are maladapted, so unfit to survive. Any opinions about >this nice contradiction? > >Cheers, > >Kim > >-- >http://www.kimvdlinde.com
