Re: evolution

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 20:49:43 GMT

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    On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 03:42 PM, Van oost Kenneth wrote:

    >> And, evolutionary mechanisms are not presumed to be individual's
    >> mechanisms, are they, regardless of the agency within evolution
    >> of individuals?
    >
    > And that is just to beat, the presumption that evolution is NOT
    > individualistic biased !

    I want to be clear here- I am saying (since I think this is what I understand)- that the mechanisms of general evolution are not the mechanisms of individuals. Last I knew, individuals do not have mechanisms of mutation, and no other genetic change can occur without sex, and it takes two to tango, although evolution wants more than two.

    - Wade

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