On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > That may be stretching Darwin's intent a little far. > Consider the continued > popularity of Segovia amongst the masses, perhaps one of the most > inflexible > pluckers in the recorded history of pluck.
Perhaps I'm thinking of "evolution" in a different way. I think the 20th-C guitarists did a great deal, individually, to further the evolution of the classical guitar back in their day, by placing certain demands upon individual luthiers, adapting their own personal techniques to suit modern concert halls etc. etc. > Darwin recognized that > individuals don't adapt. Well, Darwin non-dis-irregardless, individuals do adapt. Inasmuch as the lute revival has evolved from the way it was in the 60's to the way it is now, that's got to be a function of individuals adapting to fresh ideas, different approaches. > That's the role of populations, and diverse > populations tend to be able to adapt more quickly in the face of > change. Seems to me that populations change; whereas individuals adapt. Diverse populations change more quickly, bringing about new conditions to which each individual must adapt or be left behind. DR dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
