<div>Evolution is a complex phenomenon, of course, a single study, on a very particular, very specific case of a instance of this process cannot be easily generalized to make broad statements on the "underlying process" but still this is a little bit more evidence that indicates that randomness is not an "answer all" to understand Evolution.</div> <div>I think this study is very relevant to the kind of discussion we had some time ago on same topic.</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Robert Picone <rpicone@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Nov 25, 2007 3:58 PM, giovanni santost <<A href="mailto:santostasigio@yahoo.com">santostasigio@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV>Along the line of
what we were discussing sometime ago about evolution and randomness, here some interesting reading:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071119123929.htm" target=_blank>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071119123929.htm</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It is claimed that underlying process of evolution is not randomness but instead deterministic processes.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>The actual study made no such claims, they said that <U>developmental</U> evolution <U>in the nematode vulva</U> occurred <U>primarily</U> through deterministic mechanisms. <BR><BR>Basically, it was a claim that when ways to form a single, already defined structure are evolving, only two of forty factors were random, while the others were at least somewhat convergent. <BR><BR>See: <A
href="http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0960982207021938">http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0960982207021938</A><BR><BR>All this has no bearing I am aware of on the "underlying process of evolution", which is neither inherently random nor inherently deterministic. <BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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