Re: Hybrids

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2000.05.09 at 01:31:00(4546) > "Perfect" organisms don't evolve. They are so well adapted (to their particular > environment) that they do not change over the ages. +More I like to call this nonsense. Do you honestly think that a "perfect" organism never undergoes mutations that may become fixed and lead to a new speciation event? Hah, that would be the day. Hence "evelutionary > dead-ends" such as the horseshoe crab are more "perfect" than those organisms > that had "gone on" (again a misconception of linear progressive [in human > terms] > thinking) towards more complexity, eg the spiders, the butterfly, more > "advanced" arthopods all. I agree with the latter qualification. But I think the entire concept of "perfect organism" is total nonsense. It's a very typical human-centered deterministic attitude. I'd say that it goes back to the Middle Ages. Wilbert

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