Tree of life not real (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, February 14, 2014, 00:02 (3937 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Friday, February 14, 2014, 00:08

DAVID: New DNA studies say evolution goes back and forth in complexity through time, eventually more complex from the more simple, but a tortuous route.:
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> http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/evolution-youre-drunk-> David: As Simon Conway Morris noted convergence smells of teleology.
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> dhw:I don't know where convergence comes into this research, let alone teleology-
You have to know Conway Morris' writings. He is not in this article but the findings fit his contentions. Convergence is what is being described, life inventing the same thing over and over and on many different branches of the bush, and C-M opines that this suggests teleology in evolution's advances because the same advances in complexity occur so often. Again, six types of eyes.