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> > QUOTE: “'[i]The methods developed so far really think about genetics and environment as separate and orthogonal, as independent factors. When in truth, they’re not independent. The environment has had a strong impact on the genetics, and it probably interacts with the genetics,” said Gil McVean, a statistical geneticist at the University of Oxford. “We don’t 
> > really do a good job of … understanding [that] interaction.'”[/i]
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> > DAVID: [i]We really do not know how genes control traits. Environment plays an unknown degree of influence, as dhw notes.[/i]
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> > dhw: Thank you for this gracious acknowledgement. All our discussions revolve around things “we really do not know”, but I don’t think it requires a great deal of thought, research and money to realize that interaction between the genome and the environment lies at the heart of evolution.
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> What is at the heart of driving evolution is God. What environment does, and I include competition with other organisms under the environment umbrella, is species adaptation to the problems presented, nothing more.