[ExI] the ethics of the Vile Offspring

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Sun May 22 18:04:30 UTC 2011


On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/2011 12:39 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
>
>> At the root of it, what evolves?  What changes?  Genes.
>
> Creatures don't thrive or die directly because of genes, which are invisible
> to selection (unless they are broken so they fail to code anything).
> Creatures thrive or die due to the interaction of their phenotypes and their
> environments.

Where do their phenotypes come from?

What do they pass on to the next generation?

Keith




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