(January 27, 2015 at 3:13 pm)Surgenator Wrote: @Heywood
If a system reached its maximum fitness evolving and its environment is stable, is it evolving?
Is the crocodile evolving? It's remained largely unchanged for 250 million years. Evolution hits plateaus but just because a plateaus is hit doesn't mean the process has stopped. As long as you have replication, heritiable traits, change, and selection you have evolution.