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Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...

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Offline Mangalmurti (OP)

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Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...
« on: 10/03/2011 13:40:04 »
the author asserts that there would be paradigm shift, and that natural selection would be displaced as cause of evolution.

my understanding, it is the ability to adapt to the changes that occcur from the happy accidents, that then allows species to adapt, and if they have the ability to adapt, or they have a trait that confers an advantage when an "accident" occurs, they are selected rather than those organisms that do not, naturally!   hence, natural selection still is the actual process that occurs
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Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...
« Reply #1 on: 29/03/2011 17:39:18 »
Quote from: Mangalmurti on 10/03/2011 13:40:04
the author asserts that there would be paradigm shift, and that natural selection would be displaced as cause of evolution.

my understanding, it is the ability to adapt to the changes that occcur from the happy accidents, that then allows species to adapt, and if they have the ability to adapt, or they have a trait that confers an advantage when an "accident" occurs, they are selected rather than those organisms that do not, naturally!   hence, natural selection still is the actual process that occurs

Paradigm shifts are not really a thing I think a Mammel or Lizard are really going to be effected by.

I think the point relates far more to human evolution and not other life, ofcourse a human paradigm shift could effect other life.
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Re: Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...
« Reply #2 on: 17/04/2018 07:58:59 »
Quote from: Jolly- Joliver on 29/03/2011 17:39:18
Paradigm shifts are not really a thing I think a Mammel or Lizard are really going to be effected by.
What is a Mammel? Is it related to Mammoth?
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Re: Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...
« Reply #3 on: 17/04/2018 10:46:06 »
The spelling Mammel looked unfamiliar to me so I checked it out it is of course the singular of Mammals the group to which Mammoths belonged.
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Re: Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...
« Reply #4 on: 03/10/2018 09:17:18 »
Wait... Are you telling me that "Mammal" wasn't an actual word?
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Re: Just read "Evolution Through the Looking Glass", I do not agree...
« Reply #5 on: 03/10/2018 20:03:37 »
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