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William Benson (VBACreations.Com) vbacreations at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 12:52:16 CDT 2012


>>> All species go extinct

Checked in with the cockroach lately?

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>
> William Benson:
>
> ... unless you can guarantee all the offspring ... live up to or beyond

your definition of evolutionary scale ... then you cannot call that
> evolution in action.


There are no guarantees of survival in evolution ... that is one of its
principal points. What is inarguable is that change is constantly
happening, in environment, expression of certain genes, suppression of
others, and mutations.

Evolution is about winners, not contenders.
>

I would say that that if you are a contender, you are a winner -- at least
for now. You have a chit in the game, and are succeeding in your niche. If
your survival strategy continues to work, your species/particular genetic
expression/mutation flourishes; if not, you diminish.

Besides, at a large enough time scale, everybody loses. All species go
extinct. Mankind has a shockingly high chance of offing itself in the next
100 years, perhaps as much as 1 in 10.

-Ken
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