Steve Shaw

But selection is not evolution, though it is certainly a tool in its armoury.

WHAT?!

Selection is the non-random action on heritable material which can miscopy.

Er, no it isn't. That's Lamarckism.

Paul Burke

Steve: I'm not sure what you think IS evolution then.

I've been having the same trouble for some time.

Natural selection is a universal- it works on everything, it's just a description of a process, not a "thing". Biological evolution (to me and I think most scientists) is the change of a population's genome as accumulated changes are acted on by the selection process.

Thank you, Paul.