Precambrian environment (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 24, 2013, 15:15 (4179 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: As sets of cells experiment within living organisms, other organisms may take up whatever is successful and develop it for themselves. We humans do this all the time, but maybe the same processes apply throughout Nature, as individual intelligences come up with new ideas. How they first came into being we don't know, but isn't this a convincing explanation of how evolution itself actually works? No random mutations, no missing fossils, shared ideas, cooperation, convergence, individual experiments and innovations leading to speciation...all derived from the mechanisms within "the intelligent cell".-I have no argument with this as long as we stick to the agreement that it all stems from a brilliantly designed genome to accomplish the changes.