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I think your 2001 explanation is best :)From: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2008-06-04 15:13:34
Remote IP: 76.251.213.74
MessageIn all seriousness, I think there had to be some kind of
evolutionary jump. It's the only thing that seems to
explain it.
Actually I was just reading how it's been discovered that
animals have a built-in evolutionary process mode. Under
certain conditions, the species can shift into this mode
producing a large number of mutations in the offspring
and helping to cause *rapid* evolution of the species.
Then, after whatever need has been met, the process
mysteriously shuts off, and the newly evolved species
returns to a state of normal, slow evolution.
It appears that *slow evolution* is caused by the aggregrate
of individual processes--a reproduction of the fittest.
It appears that *fast evolution* is caused by a collective
process. Some sort of collective wisdom of the whole species
under a certain need triggers the fast evolution mode.
*Fast evolution* is somewhat mysterious . . . and your 2001 humor
becomes not outside the realm of possibility believe it or not.
Steven
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