[FRIAM] Somethint to talk about tomorrow

[Robert Holmes]

On 6/7/07, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>  <snip>The thing about this way of thinking that makes my palms sweat is
> suddently makes Waddington's concept of Genetic Assimilation totally
> transparent.  Before the heat shock procedure, there was isoethic variation
> in wing-formation genes; in the context of heat shock, this variation became
> alloethic, and could be selected.
>
> ANYWAY.  Dont read thompson, read the damn passage.
>
> NIck
>

Or - as Rutherford & Lindquist (1998) suggest - the Hsp90 acts as a buffer
on the flies accumulated mutations. So how would we go about distinguishing
which of these is the the best description?

Robert
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