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Subject: Re: the Goal of evolution
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 15:41:35 EDT
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In article <265@spar.UUCP> ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes:
>> Paul Torek    >> Frank Adams
>
>>> "Evolution" per se has no goals;
>>>but I think it makes sense to say that the species which are evolving  do
>>>have a goal: to survive.  (And the individuals of the species have the more
>>>complex goal of perpetuating their genes.)
>>
>>Not me.  Not my cat.  Not most animals, I'll wager.
>
>    Are you seriously trying to tell us that most animals do not possess
>    basic survival instincts?
>
	I think you misunderstood him. I rather think he is denying
the stuff in the parentheses, namely he is saying that he and his cat
do not have the goal of perpetuating thier genes. Of course his cat
has the goal of surviving! But it may be doubted that it is
attempting to transmit its genes.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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