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Go vincent!
Seeing as we've sort of bumped into the KT boundary and all that, I'd
like to ask a specific to see if Sheldrake has anything concrete (as
opposed to just the generic mechanism) to offer:
We talked about novelty under MR as coming from a sort of hybridisation
between existing morphs; so how did flying creatures come from a
non-flying world? If the Drakester hasn't done that one specifically,
are there any similar examples where he's actually postulated which MRs
have crossed to give a new line (transition to land, rise of flowering
plants, rise of homoiothermy etc.)?
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