Mateusz Bagiński comments on Genes did misalignment first: comparing gradient hacking and meiotic drive

[Mateusz Bagiński]

Thanks for publishing it :)

There is no direct analogy to recombination in gradient descent.

Dropout?

In a eukaryotic organism, only the germline will continue indefinitely– all other (somatic) cell lines’ days are numbered.

The germline is strictly separated from the soma only in non-sponge animals.

One idea is that accessory genomes can serve as a scratch space while the core genome is more conservative.

Super interesting …