Re: Crystalline ancestry: Vegetative growth
- From: John Edser <edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:54 -0500 (EST)
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Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:-
I am using the term "vegetative growth" to refer to propagation via
growth without reproduction.
Hi Tim,
One of the great conundrums of biology is how exactly reproduction
differs from growth. [...]
In organisms which reproduce "vegetatively", reproduction
and growth usually do not differ by very much at all.
JE:-
Asexuality can be considered to be growth on one hand but reproduction
on the other. It all depends on DARWINIAN FITNESS INDEPENDENCE. In this
case the asexual reproductive remains sufficiently biologically separate
from the parent allowing it to sustain an independent fitness which in
turn, allows fitnesses to reversibly intersect within an additive in
fitness population. OTOH, if the asexual reproductive remains
biologically within the parent as a non additive in fitness sub part,
this will constitute a multiplicative nested sub set. In this case such
a growth can only be selected as a part of the parent, i.e. NOT in
contest to it.
You previously stated: "I am using the term "vegetative growth" to refer
to propagation via growth without reproduction. " IOW you ARE
discriminating between them. This being the case, do you regard crystal
coded information to be a dependent "growth" or an independent
"reproduction" of information?
Regards,
John Edser
Independent Researcher
edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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