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From: sa209@utb.shv.hb.se (Claes Andersson)
Subject: Re: Lamarckian Evolution
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jhopson@reed.edu (John Hopson) wrote:
>In article <1995Jan26.155034.5696@gdunix.gd.chalmers.se>
>sa209@utb.shv.hb.se (Claes Andersson) writes:
>
>>   The whole idea that makes Darwinian evolution so logical is its ability to
>> bring order to chaos.
>
>    Is Darwinian evolution the only system that becomes more ordered
>over time?
>
>> You underestimate the size of the search space we are
>> talking about when we mention real, analogos reality.
>
>    But you seem to be underestimating the size and power of the system
>that is doing the searching.  :)
> etc.

 Very well..

 You seem to have get the whole idea of evolution wrong. How dare I say
so? Well, if you think that that the fact that you can go one way implies that
you can go the other way. The whole idea of evolution is to get the phenotype
from the genotype. If you think that there is a gene for a finger somewhere;
you are wrong.

 I understand that you had troubles understanding what I wrote if you look
upon genes as some sort of blueprint of the body.

Claes Andersson. University of Bors. Sweden



