>>>> JE:-
>>>> Ok. Thank you for a clear and unambiguous explanation.
>>>> If just 387 selected gene changes separate us from a chimp would it

> be

>>>> rational to say that all that _heritably_ separates the human from a
>>>> chimp
>>>> is 387 pieces of _additive_ genetic information?

>>

>>> I don't think so. Certainly the changes (separating us from chimp)

> which

>>> have been fixed by drift rather than selection are also heritable.

>> JE:-
>> I understand that many more genes which have drifted remain different.
>> However, because they only drifted by chance, the probability is that

> most

>> of them remain "neutral".

> Correct.

>> Does it make any sense to say that the total
>> amount of selected heritable information that can be conserved over
>> generations (additive information) which separates us from a chimp is

> only...

>
>
> "Perplexed in Peoria" jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>

>>>>> JE:-
>>>>> Ok. Thank you for a clear and unambiguous explanation.
>>>>> If just 387 selected gene changes separate us from a chimp would it

>> be

>>>>> rational to say that all that _heritably_ separates the human from a
>>>>> chimp
>>>>> is 387 pieces of _additive_ genetic information?

>>>

>>>> I don't think so. Certainly the changes (separating us from chimp)

>> which

>>>> have been fixed by drift rather than selection are also heritable.

>

>>> JE:-
>>> I understand that many more genes which have drifted remain different.
>>> However, because they only drifted by chance, the probability is that ...