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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.)
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To: cornelis
And another point is that fitness and survival involves a trend toward the opposite.

Moving back to the theme of intoxication for a moment, a drunkard's walk from a wall will trend away from the wall. Stochastic change from a lower limit of complexity (bacteria) will produce some instances of greater complexity, but the modal trend remains near the lower limit of complexity.

And bacteria remain the dominant life form on earth, by any measure relevant to survival.

182 posted on 11/03/2005 6:09:28 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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