Re: ORIGINS: Phyletic Change
Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:47:50 -0400Dennis Sweitzer wrote:
>Early cars had drastically different designs, and each innovation could
>cause noticable difference in apperance and handling; now cars all
>essentially look the same, and drive similarly, and most innovations are
>vitually invisible.
>
>In short, early life was simple and innovation consisted of widely varying
>body plans. They survived and adapted. Later life is more complex and
>efficient; much of the diversity of early body plans is preserved, but
>innovation is much more biochemical in nature, and body plan variation is
>incremental.
And automobiles were and are designed by intelligent agents...
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