Darwinian or Neutral Theory of Evolution or Something Else?

Abstract

Darwinian and neutral theories of evolution represent too competing views about evolution - Darwinian theory seems to be the winner in the competition. TGD view about evolution represents that the third view in which the random changes correspond to quantum jumps according to zero energy ontology (ZEO). The number theoretical vision about TGD predicts that state function reductions tend to increase in statistical sense the number theoretical complexity of the system characterized by the dimension n for an extension of rationals coded by the value of effective Planck constant h_eff/h₀ = n serving also as a kind of IQ. Magnetic body (MB) is the carrier of dark matter in TGD sense and the controlling agent - master - using biological body as slave. In particular, genome has dark analog realized as dark proton sequences - dark nuclei. Ordinary genome is its secondary representation and its dynamics is induced from that of dark genome: this view is inspired by the TGD based model for Pollack effect. In the sequel I will explain briefly these three views about evolution, and propose a concrete model for how evolution at the gene level could be induced from the reconnections of the flux tubes at the level of dark MB. Species preserving mutations would correspond to recombination of maternal and paternal genomes occurring in meiosis, and evolutionary leaps to addition of new portions to genome realized at the level of dark genome as reconnections and inducing corresponding change at the level of ordinary genome.