Evolution (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 13:07 (5595 days ago) @ dhw

However, the summary was clearly a misguided effort, since it has had precisely the opposite effect to what I'd intended. Instead of bringing order to chaos, I have added to the chaos. The "evolution" thread has turned into a Hydra, and it's painfully obvious that the 'h' in dhw does not stand for Hercules! - hah! Wyrmy jokes! - Well, at least in my case, there's no need to draw that line--I was made painfully aware of that by the gentleman I met last year who adheres to process philosophy. - To be frank, off the top of my head I do not know what started this, but I can promise if its far off course its probably my fault. My brain quite easily jumps from topic to topic. - I think the main point was to draw attention to the major unresolved question within biology. I think it can boil down thus: - 1. Traditional Darwinian evolution, micro changes over time that give rise to novel organisms over geologic time. - 2. "Huxley-an" evolution, who stated that there was no reason to believe that evolution couldn't happen relatively rapidly. (Punctuated Equilibrium would belong here.) - The key here is that we know that speciation *can* happen in short geologic time, and it may not be simply a function for how many generations a species can produce in that time frame. - Though how these questions work to resolve our greater issue, I am presently at a loss.

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