Re: Plants The sixth sense
- Subject: Re: Plants The sixth sense
- From: W* P*
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 10:44:22 -0600 (CST)
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> Descent with modification!
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> Read 'The Panda's Thumb" by Stephen Jay Gould. Or any of his books, for
> that matter.
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> Basically, changes occur with modifications with what's already there. As
> for the panda, it has a 'thumb' that's evolved from a wrist bone or
> something like that. That's why cows will always be cows.
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Woops!! I'm wrong here. Descent with modification would apply to an orchid
flower looking like a bee. Nothing new is created out of thin air, the
petals are simply bent and twisted, shrunk and stretched to look like a bee.
As for cows, hmmm, there's some deliberate manipulation going on there, with
the emphasis on "man"! And man is simply choosing from the variability of
gene expression.
