> -----Original Message----- > From: wi...@cs.helsinki.fi [mailto:wi...@cs.helsinki.fi] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:27 PM > To: howardpos...@ca.rr.com; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: players getting better--was Trench Fill > > > On 2/3/2009, "howard posner" <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > > > > > Darwin recognized that individuals don't adapt. > > > > ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > ???????????????? > > Adaptation is a mechanism of population dynamics; what works will win - > the individuals having more useful features will survive and produce > more children. The individuals themselves do not adopt - in the > darvinian sense. Got it? ;-)
Exactly, Arto. Well put. And now, back to lutes... Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html