Kenneth Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 10:42:29 CDT 2012
> > 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