[Paleopsych] is evolutionary change stockpiled?

[Greg Bear]

Humans have enhanced intellectual capacity, but all organisms have the
ability to sense and respond to their environment. The major sensory systems
for environmental change may be the stress and immune systems, which are
constantly assessing and reacting to multiple indicators in the environment,
both immediately and over the lifespan of the organism.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Geraldine Reinhardt [mailto:waluk at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [Paleopsych] is evolutionary change stockpiled?

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
Subject: RE: [Paleopsych] is evolutionary change 
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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> 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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> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 4:15 PM
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> stockpiled?
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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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