Re: Denton and 'Directed' evolution?

Tim Ikeda (tikeda@sprintmail.com)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:19:42 -0400

Loren writes
[...]
>I believe that Denton's complexity-implies-constraints argument is false
>as a general argument about *all* types of evolving systems. Computer
>simulations can produce the self-assembly of novel complexity both in
>highly constrained simulations and in highly contingent simulations.
[...]

I agree.
See my recent letter in the ASA list about lens crystallins.
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/199809/0082.html

The crystallins were recruited from numerous sources. The "choices"
seem very contingent.

Regards,
Tim Ikeda
tikeda@sprintmail.hormel.com (despam address before use)