flyos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sexy time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a whole? Basically none. It’s advantageous for the males though, it’s something that evolve in a context of sexual conflicts (males and females have contradictory evolutionary optima). Here the males advantage is to have a many mates as possible while the female is advantaged by being choosy regarding its mate(s).

  Evolution is not always about optimising things for a whole species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I’m not alone… Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it kills your cells, it can’t be bad, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this website happily reporting that you should eat curcuma because curcumin was shown (?) to be a possible cellular anti-proliferating… 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in a meritocracy.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people did, look up the Peer Community Journal. Backed up by more and more organisations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effective decolonization requires a radical transformation that can only be realized through a radical praxis.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly the goal of Peer Community In: you put your paper on some archive, you ask a “Recommender” to recommend the paper, they select reviewers and the lot, and they decide to recommend or not your paper after some iteration of the process (classical peer review I’d say). Then you can update your paper in a final version, with a kind of stamped version saying it was recommended by XXX (the peer review process is published along as well, I believe).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution is not as random as previously thought, finds new study⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only mutations, genetic drift as well, which by definition, purely at random.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution is not as random as previously thought, finds new study⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This article was posted a few days ago FYI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution is not as random as previously thought, finds new study⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the…

  OK. First, nobody “previously thought” that evolution happens at random… Parts of it, yes, sure, like mutations or genetic drift. But selection is not “at random” in any reasonable meaning of the word.

  Second, the paper results are basically about how selections shapes the co-occurring of genes within a genome, in the context of e.g. gene transfer. Interesting, yes. Revolutionary, certainly not. Most biologists would have predicted that outcome… Of course, selection is going to constrain the co-occuring of some gene families, why would this be surprising?

  Anyway, look into the study, it looks interesting but you can spare reading the article, it does a very bad job (sorry OP) at placing the idea in its scientific context and the authors are not helping with their bragging about “revolutionary” discovery.