THE DRUNKARD’S WALK. “The late Stephen J. Gould strongly cautioned against the temptation to ascribe any overall directionality to biological evolution. In a famous metaphor he compared the evolution of a species in complexity space to the random walk of a drunkard who starts out leaning against a wall, but whose movement towards the gutter is unrestricted.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022