What is the working mathematical formula for evolution
[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-05-31] [Hit: ]
but i meant that you cannot predict how a creature will evolve without knowing the future.-If you have allele frequencies p and q for two alleles the same gene, then the following will be true in your population if those are the only alleles for that gene:p + q = 1If your population is NOT evolving with respect to that gene, then this equation will also be true,......
Exlanding hardy weinberg equilibrium past the null hypothesis allows us to integrate various empirical variables to predict the genotype frequencies in future generations assuming a pattern of natural selection. We can measure the likelihood that an individual with a certain trait survives to reproduce and taking this into account we can accurately predict how the allele and genotype frequencies will change over time. This has proven to be a highly effective technique in the field of population genetics.
While there could never be one central equation which definitively proves that the diversity of life that we see today is the result of millions of years of evolution starting from a single small population of very simple proto-cells, evolution does follow certain logical mathematical models which allow us to test whether or not the models are similar to what is seen in nature, and this has consistently been shown to be the case.
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you seem to be confusing accepted mathematical laws with generally accepted theories here. evolution is random with so many variables, as is the nature of organic life. it is through interaction with the environment and other organics that evolution takes place-- and at any one given time one factor can outweigh another an throw the whole scheme into chaos. it would be impossible to make a strict law dictating how evolution will work. to do so one would have to be omnipotent.
let me rephrase slightly:
there is a working formula for the theory of evolution, but i meant that you cannot predict how a creature will evolve without knowing the future.
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If you have allele frequencies p and q for two alleles the same gene, then the following will be true in your population if those are the only alleles for that gene:
p + q = 1
If your population is NOT evolving with respect to that gene, then this equation will also be true, and remain true over generations:
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