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> the diamondback female moth would be able to determine I'll rephrase: If some females for whatever reason avoid the engineered males, they will produce mor

• red75prime 7y ago
  ... if probability of finding unengineered male is greater than probability of producing viable offspring with engineered male (it was 4% for OX513A, if I remember correctly).
• danShumway 7y ago
  Good distinction. Evolution is hard to talk about, I still often have to take a step back and try to reword things that I'm talking about. Somewhat obviously, females that happen to produce a larger number of viable offspring will produce a larger number of viable offspring. That means over time, a lot of the new viable offspring will be coming from those females. Which means over time, a lot of the species will have similar genes to those females. Which means that if the females all share a common mutation, over time a lot of the species will have that mutation.