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Old 10-02-2007, 06:07 PM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Re: Dis \'n Dat with Freeman Dyson

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I was struck by this quote of Dyson: "Species once established evolve very little, and the big steps in evolution mostly occur at speciation events when new species appear with new adaptations.

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"speciation EVENT" and "new species APPEAR" pretty well did it for me. It's a poor framework to be looking at evolution from, and I'm being kind because he's old and it's not a field he's studied.

( I'm skipping over "big steps" and "once established", etc)

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