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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: An old voice.
Message-ID: <619@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:06:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:06:57 1985
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In article <1282@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:
> > [Rich Rosen]
> > What natural selection and evolution "predict"
> > is that, for that set of circumstances that occurs over a period of time,
> > the organisms that survive that period will be the ones best suited for
> > those circumstances, and those of course will be the ones that produce the
> > offspring that follow into the next period.
> 
> Rich, this is simply unworthy of you.  They "predict" that fitter organisms
> will survive?
> 
> ProFOUND.

Paul, are you incapable of reading beyond the first clause?  The key part is
that the surviving organisms will be the ones to reproduce, passing on their
characters to the next generation.  Thus, the distribution of characters
changes over the generations, producing a better adapted population.

Of course you can respond "ho hum" to this too; I wouldn't be surprised,
since it has more than one sentence.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh