Re: Income from a tax on land.

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 01/14/05


Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:32:45 GMT

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:18:53 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:

>Vendor Neutral wrote:
>> Wrong. Punctuated Equilibrium (PE) is an explanation for relatively
>> long periods of time in the fossil record without any observations of
>> subtantial changes in phenotype.
>
>That means there is no real change to the genome other then the normal
>variation within the genome. No evolution.

Wrong. There could easily be genome evolution -- e.g., behavioral
changes, disease and parasite resistance, etc. -- without gross
anatomical change.

-- Roy L



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