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Alan Canon — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:10:13 -0000

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-Now Artificial Selection, the process that produces these dogs and these pigeons and these cabbages, is too slow for us to see during the course of one lecture. But we can imitate it on a computer, and I'm going to do it with a program called "Arthromorphs."
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-These are arthromorphs. This is the parent arthromorph, and 'round the edge of it are eight child arthromorphs. And they resemble the parent, very closely, but there may be a genetic change, a mutation, a random genetic change, as you go from parent to child. So that one, for example, has longer legs, that one's got its legs up instead of down. The way you breed arthromorphs...could I have a volunteer, to...? My goodness. Right, yes. Have you ever used a computer with a mouse? Yes? Okay.
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-What you do then, is you choose the one you want to breed from, and just click it once. So he's going for the long legged one, I think. Click it. It goes to the center, and becomes the parent of the next generation. Now you see all the next generation have longer legs. What's your name, by the way? Lawrence. 
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-Lawrence seems to be breeding for longer legs. I wonder if he's going to continue that.
-Keep going, don't wait for me, just keep on breeding. OK, Lawrence likes long legs ''[laughter]'', and they're getting longer....and, okay.
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-Now what I said was, these creatures have genes which are going from parent to child. What would I mean by talking about genes in a computer? Well in a computer, of course, genes would just be numbers, they're not real genes, they're not made of DNA, but nevertheless they are genes in the sense that they are what go through from generation to generation.
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-There's no sex in these creatures, by the way, these are all reproducing asexually, like stick insects and like aphids.
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-Carry on. Breed as fast as you can to get through a lot of generations. So what we're seeing now, what Lawrence is doing, is artificial selection, just like our ancestors did with dogs and pigeons.
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-But he's managing to achieve in a couple of minutes what would have taken several centuries for our ancestors to have achieved. What are you going for, Lawrence? You're trying to get lots of zig-zags in the legs, are you? All right, perhaps we'd better proceed now, so thank you very much indeed, Lawrence.
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Alan Canon — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:44:26 -0000

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+Now Artificial Selection, the process that produces these dogs and these pigeons and these cabbages, is too slow for us to see during the course of one lecture. But we can imitate it on a computer, and I'm going to do it with a program called "Arthromorphs."
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+These are arthromorphs. This is the parent arthromorph, and 'round the edge of it are eight child arthromorphs. And they resemble the parent, very closely, but there may be a genetic change, a mutation, a random genetic change, as you go from parent to child. So that one, for example, has longer legs, that one's got its legs up instead of down. The way you breed arthromorphs...could I have a volunteer, to...? My goodness. Right, yes. Have you ever used a computer with a mouse? Yes? Okay.
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+What you do then, is you choose the one you want to breed from, and just click it once. So he's going for the long legged one, I think. Click it. It goes to the center, and becomes the parent of the next generation. Now you see all the next generation have longer legs. What's your name, by the way? Lawrence. 
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+Lawrence seems to be breeding for longer legs. I wonder if he's going to continue that.
+Keep going, don't wait for me, just keep on breeding. OK, Lawrence likes long legs ''[laughter]'', and they're getting longer....and, okay.
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+Now what I said was, these creatures have genes which are going from parent to child. What would I mean by talking about genes in a computer? Well in a computer, of course, genes would just be numbers, they're not real genes, they're not made of DNA, but nevertheless they are genes in the sense that they are what go through from generation to generation.
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+There's no sex in these creatures, by the way, these are all reproducing asexually, like stick insects and like aphids.
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+Carry on. Breed as fast as you can to get through a lot of generations. So what we're seeing now, what Lawrence is doing, is artificial selection, just like our ancestors did with dogs and pigeons.
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+But he's managing to achieve in a couple of minutes what would have taken several centuries for our ancestors to have achieved. What are you going for, Lawrence? You're trying to get lots of zig-zags in the legs, are you? All right, perhaps we'd better proceed now, so thank you very much indeed, Lawrence.

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