Re: Can evolution go backwards?

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:44:01 +0000 (UTC)

Reason <Landrew@iaf.net> wrote or quoted:

> Since there is no "forwards" in evolutionary terms, it's a difficult
> question to answer. If you mean "forwards" to mean more complexity, then it
> is generally evident in the fossil record that such steps do occur. If an
> organism becomes more survivable with less complexity, it may in fact be a
> step forward. It depends only on whether a simpler organism is more likely
> to survive and reproduce, nothing more. "Direction" is a human attribution
> to a directionless process.

Evolution directionless?

That's a pretty ridiculous idea :-|

It takes a *very* odd perspective to view life as "directionless".

Life is about as directional as an explosion - i.e. it's a *highly*
directional process - and it doesn't take much more than a casual
glance at the history of life on the planet to see that. 

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