The Mathematics of Evolution

Round two arrives time on target

Most people weren’t expecting Probability Zero, the surprise #1 science bestseller that I published earlier this month. And the definitely weren’t expecting the sequel to arrive less than four weeks later. Castalia House released The Frozen Gene: The End of Human Evolution yesterday, and it is the second book in The Mathematics of Evolution series:

The Mathematics of Evolution is the most comprehensive scientific challenge to Neo-Darwinian theory ever published. The two books in the series—Probability Zero and The Frozen Gene—present a rigorous, quantitative, and conclusive demonstration that the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection fails, not at its margins, but at its mathematical core.

The first book, Probability Zero: The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution by Natural Selection, establishes the first and most fundamental problem: natural selection cannot possibly have produced the observed genetic divergence between any two sexually reproducing species. Drawing on the selection coefficients, fixation rates from peer-reviewed literature, and genomic data from the human and chimpanzee genome projects, the analysis correctly calculates that natural selection could, at most, account for a statistically insignificant fraction of the 40 million fixations observed in the aftermath of the human-chimpanzee divergence over the last 6-7 million years.

The second book, The Frozen Gene: The End of Human Evolution, completes the argument from both directions. Analysis of ancient genomes demonstrates that the second proposed mechanism of evolutionary change, the Neutral Theory of genetic drift, cannot make up the gargantuan differences required by the genomic evidence. Moreover, the book’s critical analysis of this second evolutionary mechanism inadvertently revealed that the entire field of population genetics has been using a flawed equation that has rendered every genetics-based estimate of the past completely incorrect.

Evolution, as it turns out, is a fairy tale told by those who can’t do math.

If you’re wondering why I chose to finish a second book in the series instead of immediately returning to completing Sigma Game, you’ll see why when you read The Frozen Gene. One of the primary criticisms about the SSH is that it is non-scientific, and that claim will be a lot harder to make now that I am a bestselling science writer who has published over a dozen science papers, several of them groundbreaking and likely to be either imitated or widely cited.

The Frozen Gene was intended to be as a simple compilation of the papers that I’d written while composing Probability Zero. However, a fortuitous discovery, combined by some points raised by a critic, led me to discover a vital historical error: the core equation in Moo Kimora’s fixation model, which is utilized in every genetics-based calculation of past time, is wrong. He algebraically canceled out two different variables that were accidentally given the same symbol: N does not necessarily equal Ne, and in fact, it very seldom does. And the process of investigating that error led me to some very surprising consequences with great potential consequences for the entire human race.

So the consequences go far beyond evolution, natural selection, and neutral theory per se. Which is why I felt that it was important to get the second book out right away. And, as I mentioned earlier this month, all of this is only going to lend additional authority and credibility to Sigma Game when it comes out in March.

In the meantime, I very highly recommend that you acquire and read both books in The Mathematics of Evolution. It will not only change your view of the world, it will change your view of science.

And yes, as you can probably imagine, the science Gammas are spiraling and exhibiting exactly the sort of behavior you would expect from them.