Innovation and Speciation (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 02:11 (4678 days ago) @ dhw

My suggestion earlier was that maybe this process might be applied to innovation ... i.e. that cells combine to create new organisms. Innovation is essential to speciation. -> 
> But we do have species, and we do have multicellular organisms, and we know that these organisms behave intelligently. There has to be a mechanism that leads to innovation....... Just as epigenetics enables a species to remain the same, innovative genetics (as opposed to random mutations) would enable it to change. This would account for the evolutionary bush. In other words, each innovation is the result of individual cells intelligently combining to form a new community, and each new community results in a new species.-Here is an article full of findings in flowers and fish and rife with speculation about how speciation might occur; thoughtful and yet fanciful:-http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/331382/title/Evolution%E2%80%99s_Wedges_