ChristianKl comments on Open Thread May 30 - June 5, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 June 2016 08:14:00AM *  4 points [-]

It doesn't make sense to focus on only one organism. Natural selection is a stochastic process. Genes that don't help the only organism that carry it get doublicated all the time.

A random gene on the Y chromosome of Genghis Khan that didn't have strong effects would now be carried by millions of people without the gene being responsible for it.