That’s quite a lot of entropy and enough to compete with or at least alongside natural selection in that biome.
I wonder if there are other sources that promote recombination in nature.
Really messes up the whole model for that theory. Instead of assuming transitional forms or so many ancestors passing sex linked traits that were selected for, there really can be spontaneous same generation mutation that can become sex linked or be passed, with no gradual multigenerational aspect.
Viral infection is an example of another example of horizontal gene transfer. Some bacteria have developed other ways to take advantage of this process easily. Darwin might be surprised by this, but the experiments that first showed evidence for this are nearly a century old now so its nothing new for the field today.
Some bacteria are capable of naturally taking up genetics of nearby bacteria. There are other methods for horizontal gene transference. It happens more in simple organisms, but even humans are thought to have DNA in a genome transferred by ancient viruses.
I wonder if there are other sources that promote recombination in nature.
Really messes up the whole model for that theory. Instead of assuming transitional forms or so many ancestors passing sex linked traits that were selected for, there really can be spontaneous same generation mutation that can become sex linked or be passed, with no gradual multigenerational aspect.