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- From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Dawkins and creative selection
- Message-ID: <108653@bu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:27:39 GMT
- References: <108571@bu.edu> <2B673D21.3999@ics.uci.edu> <108651@bu.edu>
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- Organization: animal -- coelomate -- deuterostome
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- In article <108651@bu.edu> colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby) writes:
- >In article <2B673D21.3999@ics.uci.edu> bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
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- Brett:
- >>Yes, you are right that a distinction should be drawn between
- >>cumulative selection and mere natural selection.
-
- Me:
- >No need for a mea culpa. In your posts, and our email exchange, you
- >were consistent in your usage.
-
- Me(again):
- In fact, you explicitly said cumulative selection in the very next line
- of your post and I edited it out (I just went back and checked.) Given
- the substance of my reply, I should have turned on a few more brain
- cells in my editing. I was just trying to make the general point that
- selection can mean two different things, not that you, Brett Vickers,
- made a boo-boo and deserved net.chastisement. Sorry about that.
-
- >>Brett J. Vickers
-
- Chris Colby --- email: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu ---
- "'My boy,' he said, 'you are descended from a long line of determined,
- resourceful, microscopic tadpoles--champions every one.'"
- --Kurt Vonnegut from "Galapagos"
-