To: Doctor Stochastic
In terms of diversity of individuals and habitat, it would have to be bacteria.My point is that the modal trend in evolution is not toward greater complexity.
176 posted on
11/03/2005 5:52:01 AM PST by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: js1138
My point is that the modal trend in evolution is not toward greater complexity. Yes, you have a point. And another point is that fitness and survival involves a trend toward the opposite.
179 posted on
11/03/2005 5:57:44 AM PST by
cornelis
(Fecisti nos ad te.)
To: js1138
The "trend" looks a lot like just "drifting into a niche" (or sort of like some movies I've seen.)
180 posted on
11/03/2005 5:58:04 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: js1138
You're right...there is this idea that evolution is a ladder or pyramid with us at the top looking down at ever simpler organisms. And the assumption that our smarts represent some kind of pinnacle of evolutionary achievement.
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