"You are just plain wrong here. There is no implied direction of fitness towards increasing order."
SJ Gould used to dislike the idea that evolution was a process of increasing order or complexity. After all a trilobite was highly evolved and fit its environment so well that it was one of the longest lived critters. People who are anthrocentric think all this happened so that man could emerge, but Gould said that the emergence of mammals and Man was not a foregone conclusion. Chance could have lead away from the mammalian line and today's Freepers could well have been colonial plants.
Well, from where I'm standing most of you *are* rebellious colonial plants.