Sunday, January 11, 2009
Making New Species
With species passing out of existence so fast they can't be counted it should be good news new species are making. Except the new is old and there the whole time. If not a misunderstanding, what is this new species? Call it a Bean with a capacity to change its being by changing its mind. In biology this would be a Lamarkian sense of passing on acquired habits. In evolution this mechanism of survival done over a long enough time absolves the investigator from empirical exams. What is the new Bean? Natural selection of genetic variants is the means of acquisition, not acquired characteristics or soft inheritance. What is the new Bean? It is the realization against all odds and comedic uproar of the news that a man is a tree. Ha, ha.
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