[Paleopsych] is evolutionary change stockpiled?

[Geraldine Reinhardt]

Could be that genes think.  I'm fairly certain bacteria 
and such also cogitate.  But like non humans, they all 
adapt to their environment.  Only humans have the 
ability to use their thinking power to transform their 
living space...be it for good or bad.  I should also 
add that humans, because they don't adapt, are the 
reason our environment is in such a horrible state. 
And because of us (the humans) our environment  will be 
destroyed.

Gerry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Hovland" <shovland at mindspring.com>
To: "'Geraldine Reinhardt'" <waluk at earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:46 PM
Subject: RE: [Paleopsych] is evolutionary change 
stockpiled?


> Maybe genes think.
>
> Steve Hovland
> www.stevehovland.net
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geraldine  Reinhardt [SMTP:waluk at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Paleopsych] is evolutionary change 
> stockpiled?
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> 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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> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:42 PM
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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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: paleopsych-bounces at paleopsych.org
>> [mailto:paleopsych-bounces at paleopsych.org] On Behalf
>> Of Geraldine Reinhardt
>> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:32 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [Paleopsych] is evolutionary change
>> stockpiled?
>>
>> Could be.  Check with Greg Bear.
>>
>> Gerry Reinhart-Waller
>> Independent Scholar
>> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Hovland" <shovland at mindspring.com>
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>> <paleopsych at paleopsych.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 4:15 PM
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>> stockpiled?
>>
>>
>>> 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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