Dear old bald guy with big eyebrows (aka Nick)..
I'm becoming an old bald guy myself with earlobes that are sagging and a
nose that continues to grow despite the rest of his face not so much. I
look forward to obtaining eyebrows even half as impressive as yours!
Now *there* is some
Steve:
This is sort of fun: Which is more advanced; a horse's hoof or a human
hand.?
Answer: the hoof is way more advanced. (Actually I asked the question
wrong, it should have been horses forearm)
Why? Because the word advanced means just altered from the ancestral
structure
minor points
1- evolution takes a singular subject - some individual thing
evolves.
2- what originally evolved was a book or scroll - i.e. it
unrolled - hence it evolved; or a flower - which unfolded hence
evolved.
3- a human evolves - according to homunculus theory of embryology
- by unfolding
Dave,
I don't understand how you would apply those points to the term when used in
its Darwinian context. It sounds like you would say that Darwinian
evolution is a misuse of the term. Is that what you are saying? If so, is
there another term you would substitute? If not, how do you put your
As a new member of this list, I was invited to introduce myself.
My connection to Friam is that after Peter Lissaman told me about it,
my wife Ruth Chabay and I realized that attending the Friday morning
coffee-house discussions at St. Johns was just what we geeks needed --
the company of other
Dave -
Can you put my assumption that one can speak meaningfully of the evolution of
a system or subsystem into the context of your minor points?
What of co-evolution of interdependent species (humans/grains,
megafauna/megafruit, predator/prey/forage networks, etc.) or of a network
thereof?
Ruth and Bruce's books are truly excellent. I think Feynman would have
approved. I wish I'd been taught their way. It would be nice to have them
give a short series of well-chosen informal seminars on their ideas. For
ignorant adults, if there are any in Friam. I am, and would learn a
In fact, evolution as we are discussing it is always a system event,
yes?
Since everything is interconnected, change in any part of the system
affects all the system to a greater or lesser degree.
So Steve's interdependent systems are a mutually beneficial co-
evolution, whereas cancer or
