Revisiting convergence: best example (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 03, 2017, 15:50 (2546 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: ‘There is more than one way to make a neuron, more than one way to make a brain,’ says Moroz. In each of these evolutionary branches, a different subset of genes, proteins and molecules was blindly chosen, through random gene duplication and mutation, to take part in building a nervous system.'

DAVID’s comment: The process of evolution is designed to innovate complexity. Convergence proves it!

dhw: Very interesting variation. The authors say it’s all random. According to your beliefs, it’s divinely preprogrammed or dabbled for the sake of complexity for the sake of keeping life going for the sake of producing the brain of Homo sapiens. I suggest that it’s evidence of different cell communities devising their own different ways of survival/improvement: i.e. not random, and not for the sake of Homo sapiens.

You are sticking to your view that evolution is at random, but really not at random if cell committees do what they wish. Are the cells somehow guided? Thec authors have to say it is at random to keep their Darwin credentials.