Re: Mutationism Redux

Bill Morse wrote:

An obvious one, which to me lends support to the
mutation-and-altered-development (MAAD) view - sorry but that's the way it
came out :-) - is the extent of symbiosis. Not everyone finds this a
problem for the selectionist camp, but I do. Why should individual
selection lead to pervasive symbiosis? [...]

Organisms have historically been unable to share genes.
The best way of using another creature's adaptation was
remotely - via some kind of symbiotic relationship.

Of course, those are now the bad old days: today, we
can simply transplant genes across species boundaries -
a kind of global inter-species recombination.

Death to isolationism, long live the new biology ;-)

A third question is the general laziness of animals. Many don't seem to be
working all that hard, at least if we think they should be so exquisitely
adapted to their environment and constantly engaged in a struggle for
existence.

E.g. the sloth. It looks like it is conserving energy to me.
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