Life as Evolving Software... (Chaitin) (Humans)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 22:32 (4521 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 22:41

I don't agree with your interpretation of Gould. From all I've read by him and about him, he consistently pointed to the gaps and the sudden appearance of new forms. Which is why I look at the whale development, and see no intermediaries, just new forms many thousands-plus years apart, each quite different. I'll look for references I can quote, but I've never read his last magnum opus.

I've re-read Wonderful Life. I'm still of the same opinion about gould. Here is the website the quotes from gould came from. it is an ID site but they use valid sources in the literature;

http://iose-gen.blogspot.com/2010/06/origin-of-body-plan-level-biodiversity.html#gold

Here is the amazon site for his last book on the Structure of Evolution (which I have not read):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674006135?ie=UTF8&tag=thneyoreofbo-20&linkCod...