Re: News: Replaying evolution.

Ye Old One wrote:
Replaying evolution
By Patrick Barry
June 2nd, 2008

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32801/title/Replaying_evolution_

Scientists show that happenstance mutations matter

WTF? The only thing this experiment shows is that *all* mutations matter, whether happenstance or not. Evolution is sequential. The way a species evolves in the future depends very much on how it evolved in the past. A fish will evolve as a fish because it followed the fish path in evolution in deep time. A fish won't evolve in the future like a mammal.

Duh!


If Stephen Jay Gould were alive today, he would be smiling. Maybe even
gloating.


No he wouldn't. Sorry.

New research suggests that the famous evolutionary biologist was right
when he argued that, if the evolution of life were “wound back” and
played again from the start, it could have turned out very
differently.


This research shows nothing about the randomness of the mutations in those microbes.

This is all much ado about nothing.


--dkomo@xxxxxxxx





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