PERFECTLY ADAPTED. “Our textbooks like to illustrate evolution with examples of optimal design—nearly perfect mimicry of a dead leaf by a butterfly or of a poisonous species by a [tasty] relative. But ideal design is a lousy argument for evolution…Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution—paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows…” (Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb).
linkedin post 2022-06-29 05:12:48
Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022