I am curious about the second part of your comment. What exactly makes you think that random mutation and drift are much more important than natural selection? The bit I have problems with is the “much more”.
Looking over some of my notes from the book, I should perhaps have written “much more than I previously thought”—just learning that there is a pretty hefty debate in the theory of molecular evolution about whether selection plays a role at all made me update towards placing less importance on selection (the existence of an academic debate on the topic makes it at least not a shut-and-close case).
But I’m still quite much working with the book, so this belief might be overturned quickly or refined once I re-read the chapter.
I am curious about the second part of your comment. What exactly makes you think that random mutation and drift are much more important than natural selection? The bit I have problems with is the “much more”.
Looking over some of my notes from the book, I should perhaps have written “much more than I previously thought”—just learning that there is a pretty hefty debate in the theory of molecular evolution about whether selection plays a role at all made me update towards placing less importance on selection (the existence of an academic debate on the topic makes it at least not a shut-and-close case).
But I’m still quite much working with the book, so this belief might be overturned quickly or refined once I re-read the chapter.