Re: Evolution and other planets

From: Peter F (effectivespamblock_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 04:13:10 +0000 (UTC)

"Perkowski" <perkowski1@optonline.net> wrote in message news:cqi6rl$475$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> Quick question...
>
> If life can possibly exist on other planets that are similiar to Earth,
> what are the chances of animal and plant life on those planets following
> the animal and planet life here on Earth?
>
> For example, could a planet somewhere in our galaxy be the home
> of past creatures like the dinosaurs that appeared here on Earth?
>
> All things being equal, would animals/plants on other world follow
> the same evolutionary map that animals/plants on Earth do?
>
> Joe Perkowski
>

In general, given sufficient similarity of the separate (by being in different solar systems) biospheres,
I _feel_ rather sure that roughly (not exactly) similar niches would be filled with similarly
looking and functioning species. (Ought not be so hard to accept given the enormous variation of both
on this planet.;)

If there exists (which seems likely) "windows of opportunity" for specific
thematic features bioevolutionary patterning to get started, even
several fairly unlikely series of random "bad luck Life-wrecking events"
(but of course barring the entire biosphere being blasted by big
asteroidal boulders) would tend to be overcome by persistent
universal law-aligned evolutionary patterning
(including not the least "The Law of Large Numbers").

Furthermore, IF one IN ADDITION can recognize an in animal evolution
(within 'the motile phylum') almost constantly (or at least very frequently)
operating combination of certain selection pressures -- am thinking specifically of what I refer to
by the expression "ambi-advantageous evolution" [a sub principle relative to Darwin's
original generic meaning of "natural selection"] -- then what can be predicted with
great logical certainty is that at least a broad-fronted evolutionary trend in the
direction of AEVASIVE genophenotypes will materialize.

Adverse (~= evolutionarily destructive) type evolutionary (or selection) pressures (ATEP),
and opportune (~=evolutionarily constructive) type evolutionary pressures (OTEP)
constitute the basic dichotomy from which I have derived AEVASIVE.

[As far as an understanding of AEVASIVE is concerned, various academically analyzed and debated
subtypes of selection pressures (at/within the biological part of the evolutionary pressures totality),
e.g. "mate/sexual/gamet/ecological/directional/stabilizing/disruptive/social/cultural (whatever) selection",
versus haphazard causes of fixation of genetic mutations (sampling errors), can be safely subsumed,
and one's explanatory attention is better focused mainly on a particualar subcategory of
ATEP and its myriad lifetime confluxes with OTEP, in the lifetime and evolution of animals.]

Peter 

-- 
Partly inspired by MAD (cold war shaming acronym), I arrived at EPT
[e.g: eclectically Explanatory perversely Pert
philosophical Terminology] and by concEPTual lenses/tools saw/grasped how
and why AEVASIVE preoccupations (personalities) normally preclude making
in dEPTh sense (of themselves).
In the acronym for Ambiadvantageously Evolved 'V-word' Actention
Selection (System) Involving Various Endorphins, AS(S) stand for how we
think/emote/behave based on our individual repertoire of competing {by
mutual inhibition) whilst cheered and booed {by current and past
environmental influences) "actention modules", & AE refer to the didactic
division of the Evolutionary Pressure Totality into relevant dialectic
lifetime juxtapositions of:
1. Opportunity
2. Adversity - here especially SHITS [Synaptic Hibernation Imploring
{naturally selective AND 'motivating' of selective unconsciousness)
Traumatic {also tardily so) Situations] normally repercussively retained as
CURSES type memory aka "Pain" (Janov)
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