On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:17 PM, chriswi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Unfortunately for human society, the strongest, best,
most sensible evolutionary advances in any field are
hopelessly pitted against an even more powerful and
ruthless force: fashion.
And advertising.
Sean
Chris
--- wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote:
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.
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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? ;-)
I think what Darwin recognized is that acquired
adaptations aren't
passed on genetically, which is a different thing.
Yes, that really is another thing.
Arto
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