On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:21 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 13-Nov-2008, at 17:21, Stefano Mori wrote: >> http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/60/95O56/index.xml?section=topstories >> >> To all the people who kept insisting it was random, and I said that >> it >> was too improbable, and complex, to be random, and there is likely >> some hidden mechanism.... >> >> Told ya! > > > For certain values of random... > > As I recall the issue was about an EXTERNAL force that guided > evolution. Having proteins and DNS molecules exert some control is > little more than natural selection at work, no? >
Well it's more along the lines of an organism will work on some level to maintain a balance within itself regarding its environment. Kind of like how a buoy rights itself in water most of the time. For early organisms to have a mechanism to keep themselves from going too wacky is not that surprising. I do find it interesting they focused on mitochondria though. Mitochondria are thought to have been bacteria in a symbiotic relationship that got fully incorporated. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
