More about how evolution works; stasis (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, October 16, 2015, 01:47 (3325 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: There is no disagreement here. You are repeating my own arguments in your own words: "environmental changes cause modifications" = adapt; “how complexity advances”, “increasing complexity” = my “innovations”; “very specialized process” and “certain groups of organisms” = my “exceptional individuals”. The only difference between us is your insistence on “a designed evolutionary plan”, whereas I would argue that the whole process smells of organisms doing their own thing.-Your smell concludes that some organisms are satisfied to stay the same and others are discontent with their life and therefore complexify. Sounds like a scattershot method of evolution to me. Monkeys decided on their own, starting 22-24 million years ago to become human, so over time they did it, from no obvious reasonable challenges from the then existing environment as known to us.-Please see my entry on Koonin.