Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA26916 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:43:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: sex and the single meme Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:38:37 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F205F4ia5wAz8AWiZAt00006874@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jan 2002 22:38:37.0881 (UTC) FILETIME=[07C00290:01C1A5F1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: sex and the single meme
>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:03:52 -0500
>
>Hi Scott Chase -
>
> >Are there other cases
> >where numerically limited subsets of humans have broken off and had
> >higher/lower prevalence of genetically base traits contrasted to the
> >parental population due to drift?
>
>Besides royal families and rampant idiocy, not to mention ugliness, and,
>oh yeah, hemophilia?
>
>
Isn't that due to inbreeding amongst relatives, versus sampling error in
small populations *per se*? I'm trying to arrive at a cogent contrast
between drift and inbreeding, if any, skimming Futuyma's text _Evolutionary
Biology_ (esp. p. 314). I defer to more knowledgable list members until
(if?) my febrile brain can parse the difference between the related
concepts.
What's the deal with cheetahs? Drift, inbreeding or a smidgen of both?
Ref:
Futuyma D. 1998. Evolutionary Biology. Sinauer Associates. Sunderland,
Massachusetts
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