Re: Hybrids
- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
- Subject: Re: Hybrids
- From: B* W* M*
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 21:48:58 -0500 (CDT)
"Perfect" organisms don't evolve. They are so well adapted (to their particular
environment) that they do not change over the ages. Hence "evelutionary
dead-ends" such as the horseshoe crab are more "perfect" than those organisms
that had "gone on" (again a misconception of linear progressive [in human
terms]
thinking) towards more complexity, eg the spiders, the butterfly, more
"advanced" arthopods all.
Conflict, maladaptaiton forces evolution. The ape in the forest, unchanged for
10 million years or more, is not a "lesser" organism than those troops that a
few million years ago foraged out into the African savannahs clumsily.
BWM
