[Fis] Response to Salthe's response

Response to Salthe's response: So, as I understand the discussion, we are using the term origin in at least two different senses: origin as in Darwin's "origin of species," which passes muster, and origin as a big bang of some order or other, which does not pass muster, muster in the sense of

[Fis] Response to Steven Ericcson-Zenith

Response to Steven Ericcson-Zenith: Thank you for the reference. One might possibly relate King's notion of "catastrophic evolutionary pressure" to Stephen J. Gould's 21st century thesis of "punctuated equilibrium," though Gould hardly dismisses "natural selection by incremental mutation" in the

[Fis] Follow-up to my response to Pedro

In my response to Pedro, I wrote, “Simply as an event of possible evolutionary interest and one that is both innovative and provocative, I attach a write up of 'A Human Enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo'. It was not possible to attach the file. If anyone would like a copy, kindly email me directly at

[Fis] _ response to Pedro, response to Salthe

Because I am unclear about just what was received by FIS members and what was not, I am copying my response to Salthe and my response to Pedro below. Kindly excuse the repeat performance if it is one-- it won't happen again! Cheers, Maxine Response to Pedro: With respect to nonhuman animal

Re: [Fis] Response to Salthe

Here is a more direct link. Google drive tricked me :-) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-c2CVg9ZQsAel9tVktvQmxucUk=sharing On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote: > For reference you can find a copy of Clarence King's "Catastrophe And >