[extropy-chat] Reverse Evolution ?

[MB]

> [...] snip [...]
>>These principles are combined to form the core of the evolutionary
>>model. The Darwinian outlook holds that small incremental changes in
>>structure and behavior, brought about by the natural selection of
>>variations, produce, after a long period of time, organisms that
>>differ so greatly from their ancestors that they are no longer the
>>same organism, and must be classified as a separate species. This
>>process of speciation, repeated over the 3.5 billion year span of
>>time since life first appeared on earth, explains the gradual
>>production of all of life's diversity.
>>
>>(by Lenny Flank, as presented to middle-school kids, used with
>> permission)
>
> It leaves out "inclusive fitness," work of Hamilton and Haldane.  You
> really have to include http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_fitness to
> have the slightest chance of applying evolution to the subject of most
> interest to humans, namely humans.
>
>

Keith, indeed it is missing. The explanation I quoted is one offered in a
presentation on reptiles, focussing mostly on snakes, not evolution. :)

Regards,
MB