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From: jj@hume.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Josephson)
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Subject: Re: Discovering What Nature Wants
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> I believe I see an observable trend toward COMPLEXITY ...

Stephen J. Gould suggests in a recent article in Natural History that
the trend is towards increasing DIVERSITY of life forms; what you see
as increasing complexity is just the maximal complexity leading edge.
Most organisms are simple.  .. jj