cajax on Nostr: if you're not talking young earth creationism, there are two different phenomena you ...

if you're not talking young earth creationism, there are two different phenomena you could be talking about-- mutations that build up over time and the fact that exceptional individuals have exceptionally rare combinations of genes, which may or may not breed true in their offspring, this is called regression to the mean. I wouldn't call this "genetic drift" because it's not the gene pool that's changing