On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well I was referring to long run as being multigenerational timescales. Evolution is not interested in multigenerational timescales. > > to me short run means within my lifetime. To Evolution short run is the only run, and it means one generation. > Evolution simply does not act on such short timescales. > Of course it does, it's the only timescale Evolution acts on!! The change from one generation to the next will be very very small, but that's how Evolution makes huge changes, lots and lots and lots of tiny steps. And that's why it's fortunate that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. > But, to be fair, John may have had a deep time perspective in mind, say > millions of years, No, that's not what I had in mind at all. > > instead of the centuries I had in mind. > Centuries is far too long, the timescale Evolution works on depends on the species, for bacteria its about 25 minutes for humans its about 25 years. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
