Bob Zimm [you never sign your messages. I never
know how to address you] wrote:
>
> I could not enjoy the story because the science was
> so flawed. Darwin is turning over in his grave the
> way his theory was abused.
>
:-)))))))
So I guess you hated the Uplift books because the
science is also flawed, with the 17 or so ways of
cheating Einstein?
I must confess that it took me a strong will to
get past the few chapters of Darwin's Radio. What
I hated was the use of those horrible imperial
units everywhere.
> The notion that the genome can respond by producing
> an evolutionary jump means that the genome has to
> anticipate future problems but whether or not a
> gene will be improve an organism's survival is
> totally dependent upon the environment (including
> of course all of the organisms in the local ecosystem).
>
But isn't speciation itself a jump? You can't change
from a being with, say, 44 chromosomes per cell to a
being with 46 without a jump.
Alberto Monteiro
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