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From: 	Robert Trivers 
Sent: 	4/14/2018 5:06:12 PM 
To: 	Alan Rogers [ 	; Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
CC: 	Gordon Getty 	Oliver Goodenough [ 	; Tim Kane 
• Rob Hanson ; Paul Zak [ 	; Bobby McCormick 
; Terry Anderson ]; Clive Crook [ 	]; Matt Ridley 
]; Gerry Ohrstrom 
; Lee Silver 
Monika Gruter Cheney [ ; Dane Stangleriliron Bailey 
[r•i; Anna Dreber ; Anula Jayasuriya [];I:ul Romer 
[i]; Mike Cagney Evan Smith 
Roger Edelen ]; Bill Prezant [M]; John Mallen [ 
Halligan [ ; Marguerite Atkins [ 
]; Ditsa Pines [(David Darst [ ]; 
president@usfca.edu; Clair Brown [ 
Richerson, Peter J 
Subject: Re: Free Growth (09-29-17) part 2.pdf 
Importance: High 
yes Alan i think you are 
; Ms. Yvette Robbins 
; Alex.Family Pines 
; Jim 
you are referring to duplication of a gene—there are many such genes including those produced by 
retrotransposons (as evidenced by lack of introns)—where a gene has two separate effects and there is an 
advantage to having a gene with each effect you will often prefer two genes to one, because of less interference 
in fitness effects 
Peter was talking about a gene with a single effect—sickling—and the other allele is the normal one—the 
heterozygote destroys malaria within red blood cells at trivial cost and there is no cost at all if malaria is not 
present—by contrast homozygous sickle individuals suffer lifetime effects 
Peter was trying to conjure up a heterozygote that propagated asexually but this requires a chiasma between 
neighbouring genes, a very rare event and hence it usually leads rapidly to mutational decay of one of the two 
copies, i.e. so-called pseudogenes, of which there are many in our genome 
in haste 
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Alan Rogers <____________________> wrote: 
I haven't read whatever Pete wrote, but if I understand Bob correctly, 
Pete must be talking about subfunctionalization: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subfunctionalization 
If so, it's not a radical suggestion. It's thought to be the p

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