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THE GREATEST CREATION. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, William Shakespeare). https://lnkd.in/eCPt9Gk View in LinkedIn

NEGATIVE FORCES. "While natural selection selects the fittest individuals and often results in a more fit population overall, other forces of evolution, including genetic drift and gene flow, often do the opposite by introducing deleterious alleles to the population's gene pool." https://lnkd.in/d3pZ6np View in LinkedIn

THE THESIS. "Nature writ large is a mess." https://lnkd.in/euEN3Eh View in LinkedIn

NON-BENEFICIAL MORPHS. "The process of evolution is limited by a population's existing genetic variance, the physical proximity of alleles, non-beneficial intermediate morphs in a polymorphic population, and non-adaptive evolutionary forces." https://lnkd.in/d3pZ6np View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE is a meditation on the imperfection of nature. While centuries of culture have portrayed an orderly scheme of the hierarchical natural world, driven by the predictability of the heavenly bodies, with a ranked natural world with man at the pinnacle. The idea of "the great chain of being" assumed this ordered natural and spiritual world. But we learn through modern science that this is far from the case. https://lnkd.in/eT8ADEk View in LinkedIn

NEVER FROM SCRATCH. "Natural selection is a driving force in evolution and can generate populations that are adapted to survive and successfully reproduce in their environments. However, natural selection cannot produce the perfect organism. Natural selection can only select on existing variation in the population; it cannot create anything from scratch." https://lnkd.in/d3pZ6np View in LinkedIn

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RUBBISH IN, RUBBISH OUT. "Natural selection cannot create novel, perfect species because it only selects on existing variations in a population." https://lnkd.in/d3pZ6np View in LinkedIn

MANY FALSE STARTS. "Instead of a stair-step, with humans at the top, we stand alongside the kangaroo and the platypus, each of us at the end of its own narrow road. If we look back, into the past, we can see those paths turn and branch and cul-de-sac. Go far enough, and our paths meet at a crossroads. But in between that common ancestor and ourselves, the road is littered with cousins that didn't quite make it." https://lnkd.in/dN-S25a View in LinkedIn

RIDICULOUS NATURE. "Evolution is sometimes messy or even outright ridiculous." https://lnkd.in/dQkpR4e View in LinkedIn