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Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten
I'd like to detour into the nature of evolution itself. It occurs to me that the system doesn't necessarily produce long-term improvements. It can't really, because a given environment typically changes faster than genes can mutate (in the case of complex organisms like humans, dogs, whales, et cetera).
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Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten
(snip,snip) ...because evolution is often mistakenly represented (IMO) as a steady ramp of "improvement." But it has its share of dead ends -- and mistakes like us  |
Great spin Johnny, and a good reminder!
Life is not like climbing a ladder... just like humans, it's trial and error along the way. I can see this reflected in my parrot story and more toward my thoughts of the whole scenario as an "oops" incident, and if any parrots survived, perhaps they have the capacity to say... "ok, well that wasn't really a good move"... and if they didn't survive then I'd say there is room for it to happen again. Maybe that is why there seems to be occurrences only periodically throughout the years instead of every season.
Great thoughts... thanks
