Doug_S. comments on Evolving to Extinction - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 November 2007 07:18AM

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Comment author: Doug_S. 21 November 2007 11:36:49PM 1 point [-]

For the record: I did some Googling, and I found out that the "t-complex" segregation distorter in mice causes various fitness penalties (such as impaired male fertility) in addition to manipulating the sex ratio. Males without the gene actually are more likely to successfully reproduce than males without the gene, so it never reaches an equilibrium of 100%.