<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">It is a “law” in the sense of Murphy’s law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong), Godwin’s law (internet discussions, if they go one long enough, will always mention Hitler), Poe’s law (you can never tell if someone online is serious or joking), etc. <div><br></div><div>Also, per the article:</div><div>>”<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The statement is often misinterpreted as claiming that evolution is not reversible, or that lost structures and organs cannot reappear in the same form by any process of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(biology)" title="Devolution (biology)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">devolution</a>.”</span><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 30, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Tomaz Kristan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">This can't be really a law. It's only improbable, but not impossible to return to the previous version of the genome.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 9:47 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Not sure if I missed it, but there’s Dollo’s Law:</div><div><br></div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollo%27s_law_of_irreversibility" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollo%27s_law_of_irreversibility</a><div><br></div><div>I first ran into in Brooks’ and Wiley’s _Evolution as Entropy_, an old book, but still worth a glance.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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