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To: TN4Liberty
Mutations cause divergence. Selection may cause convergence.

59 posted on 05/06/2004 6:31:20 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
"Mutations cause divergence. Selection may cause convergence."

No, "selection" causes nothing. At most, it can weed out something that already exists.

61 posted on 05/06/2004 8:49:59 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Mutations cause divergence. Selection may cause convergence.

But selection also causes divergence doesn't it? Comparing the shark to the flounder yields an entirely different model.

84 posted on 05/06/2004 1:12:41 PM PDT by TN4Liberty (Life is a quagmire. Get used to it.)
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