[Paleopsych] is evolutionary change stockpiled?

[Geraldine Reinhardt]

I've concentrated on environment as being the causal 
factor in initiating phenotypic changes and I like what 
I see.  Yet I'm not certain how long such a phenotypic 
change might take.  That would depend upon the 
longevity and psychological discrimination of the 
organism able to differentiate.  As far as I can prove, 
only humans have the ability to recognize differences.

Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Independent Scholar
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Bear" <ursus at earthlink.net>
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stockpiled?


> It's a provocative idea, isn't it? Invisible 
> mutations, occurring at the
> metabolic level, in the "infrastructure," so to 
> speak, but not manifesting
> in large-scale phenotypic changes.
>
> However, I think it's also apparent that all 
> organisms today have a set of
> "grammatically correct" bauplan variations that can 
> be called upon in
> incremental (but not gradual) stages in response to 
> environmental challenges
> over perhaps hundreds or thousands of years in larger 
> animals, and tens of
> years in insects, and days or weeks in bacteria.
>
> The best recent example is the reoccurrence of wings 
> in stick insects...
>
> Best wishes!
>
> Greg
>
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> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:32 PM
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> stockpiled?
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> Could be.  Check with Greg Bear.
>
> Gerry Reinhart-Waller
> Independent Scholar
> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk
>
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> From: "Steve Hovland" <shovland at mindspring.com>
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>
>> Is it possible that there are incremental changes
>> in the environment that don't require an immediate
>> outward response, but which do cause a series of
>> "invisible" mutations which suddenly manifest when
>> the environmental changes reach some triggering
>> level?
>>
>> Steve Hovland
>> www.stevehovland.net
>>
>>
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