linkedin post 2017-03-15 06:22:02

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FLAWED DESIGNS. "Evolution’s lack of foresight can produce inherently flawed designs. The vertebrate eye – with its back-to-front wiring and blind spot where the wiring goes through the retina – is one example. Later adaptations have compensated for these problems to a large extent but once natural selection fixes upon a flawed, but workable, design, a species’ descendants are usually stuck with it."​ https://lnkd.in/dv-JiV6 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2017-03-17 06:05:19

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BEYOND EVOLUTION. "A related viewpoint that I’ve heard said is that we humans have managed to extricate ourselves from the evolutionary struggle: our technological prowess has enabled us to raise ourselves above the survival of the fittest; we are, quite simply, the fittest." https://lnkd.in/dq73Az6 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2017-03-17 05:56:48

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VESTIGIAL STRUCTURES OF THE FOOT. "In numerous mammalian taxa one or more toes have become vestigial. In numerous others, one or more toes are lost and the associated metatarsals are reduced to a vestigial state. Locomotor changes may have provided the selective pressure that drove the evolution of vestigiality in many mammalian skeletal structures." https://lnkd.in/eMd4h72 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2017-03-20 05:15:50

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MOLECULAR BEHAVIOR. "We describe the initial realization of behavior in the biosphere, which we term behavioral chemistry. If molecules are complex enough to attain a stochastic element to their structural conformation in such as a way as to radically affect their function in a biological (evolvable) setting, then they have the capacity to behave." https://lnkd.in/ddnX_69 View in LinkedIn
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