To: Right Wing Professor
Mutation causes the scatter; selection keeps the distribution narrow.But doesn't that describe something that is stable and driven towards stasis and not change?
To: AndrewC
But doesn't that describe something that is stable and driven towards stasis and not change? Well, locally stable. But introduce a new degree of freedom, and you won't be stable along that axis. And existing degrees of freedom won't be stable if you change something.
To: AndrewC
But doesn't that describe something that is stable and driven towards stasis and not change? Yes, and this is what happens if the selective pressure doesn't change considerably.
1,030 posted on
07/29/2003 2:38:42 PM PDT by
BMCDA
(If God made man from clay, why is there still clay?)
To: AndrewC
No. It describe something in constant flux about some roughly optimal point. Of course, the optimal point may change exogenously to the organism.
1,031 posted on
07/29/2003 2:40:13 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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