On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:38:43PM -0800, Bob La Quey wrote:
As a consequence I have thought a lot about this problem. Why, for instance, would evolution tolerate such an "obviously dysfunctional" disease.
<http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/11/88/index.html> for example. The current theory is that it is a consequence/tradeoff of what makes creativity possible. Creativity definitely definitively has survival benefits. Also look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)>, a term used to describe something that evolves in correlation to something else being selected. David -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
