Re: Evolution on earth: directional and progressive?


"Tim Tyler" <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John wrote:

Now in a similar vaine I want to know who has formally
established
that "...evolution remembers good ones and discards bad
ones".

Darwin should probably get credit for this observation.

From your quote it is clear that you define Evolution as
some sort of
force with a mind all of its own.

No, no. When I say "evolution remembers" that is
shorthand for
the germ line of organisms with the adaptations in
question wind up
being preserved better than that of those that lacked
them.

I'm not literally treating evolution as some kind of
bearded old man
remembering certain things. That would be silly.

Tim, this exchange prompts me to note another very important
invention (I would say the _most critically important one_
which defines the modern human) which has allowed humans to
advance so exponentially (the icing on the cake which gives
the illusion that Darwinian Evolution is
progressive/advancing and almost a force in itself.) That
invention is the ultimate step mutation[s] in
physical/organizational brain evolution which gave us the
ability to, not just think symbolically, but specifically to
do so very often by the formation of mental analogies and
metaphors! This is homo saps. best kept secret in the animal
world. ...tonyC

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