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Re: Plants The sixth sense

From: William Perez free.willie at verizon.net> on 2002.02.03 at 16:44:22(8160)
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> Descent with modification!
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> Read 'The Panda's Thumb" by Stephen Jay Gould. Or any of his books, for
> that matter.
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> Basically, changes occur with modifications with what's already there. As
> for the panda, it has a 'thumb' that's evolved from a wrist bone or
> something like that. That's why cows will always be cows.
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Woops!! I'm wrong here. Descent with modification would apply to an orchid
flower looking like a bee. Nothing new is created out of thin air, the
petals are simply bent and twisted, shrunk and stretched to look like a bee.
As for cows, hmmm, there's some deliberate manipulation going on there, with
the emphasis on "man"! And man is simply choosing from the variability of
gene expression.

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