10.07.08
Evolution: confused with microevolution
Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over
Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading genetics expert.
Fathers over the age of 35 are more likely to pass on mutations, according to Professor Steve Jones, of University College London.
Speaking today at a UCL lecture entitled “Human evolution is over†Professor Jones will argue that there were three components to evolution – natural selection, mutation and random change. “Quite unexpectedly, we have dropped the human mutation rate because of a change in reproductive patterns,†Professor Jones told The Times
The problem with this argument is that it doesn’t get out of the starting gate, because the basic assumpitions of what evolution is, are wrong. The genetics of Natural Selection/Random Mutation aren’t the real evolution that produced man. What is being described is microevolution, which is not the right candidate.
See also: Steve Jones is being silly