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- From: waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Has Macro-evolution Occured?
- Message-ID: <27JAN199300312295@juliet.caltech.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 08:31:00 GMT
- References: <1jo29o$srt@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan23.233659.24533@microsoft.com> <1993Jan25.145853.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <1993Jan26.164949.3683@hsr.no>
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- In article <1993Jan26.164949.3683@hsr.no>, onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes...
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- > ... (it was then widely misbelieved that humans are at the top of the
- >evolutionary hill) ...
- >
- >
- >Onar.
-
- I recall that a few months ago, you were taking a lot of heat on t.o.,
- trying to defend your ideas about macroevolution (I forget the details).
- I might be mistaken, but I think a lot of the debate was based on your
- claim that there was some sort of way to define "complexity" that was
- compatible with the idea that species often (usually?) became more
- "complex" as they evolved. If I am right, do you still think this?
- (NOTE: I am _not_ trying to open this can of worms again, I was just
- curious as to whether your prolonged silence on the topic was indicative
- of a changed perspective).
-
- I would have thought that on a range of "complexity", humans would
- generally be considered to be "at the top of the evolutionary hill"
- indeed. (If not, then even your intuitive notion of complexity
- seems to be unusual). How does this relate to your quoted comment
- above?
-
- Maybe I am making a lot of noise about nothing... :-)
-
- Wayne.
- **********************************************************************
-
- Wayne J. Broughton Take the road less travelled by.
- waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu
-
- Caltech has no idea what my opinions are;
- they think I'm working right now...
-