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RE: The Market Society IV - Designer Babies, Intelligent Reproduction and The Market for DNA (Preview)

in #life6 years ago

The mating market as defined in biological market theory is what is behind the process we call natural selection.

Not sure if this is correct. Mating market suggests, like a financial market, the rational choice of market participants to agree on a transaction. While mating can of course be agreed on (and is hopefully always), natural selection in contrast is what happens after that. The mating partners can´t know if the offspring will have a better survival chance as they are not aware about 100% of the genomes of the partners, so strictly speaking you can´t say the mating market is behind natural selection.

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I will change it to "sexual selection" as that is more accurate.

You might be right, I will look into it and if you're right I'll correct what I said.

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