(March 14, 2014 at 4:13 pm)Heywood Wrote: No what I am asking for is a demonstration of cumulative selection that does not require a target.
Those targets you utilized all existed as possible outcomes at the start of the cumulative selection process. Unless you or someone can demonstrate otherwise, I am forced to conclude that cumulative selection seems to require a potential target to exist in order for it to occur.
The target is: survive enough to breed and actually breed.
Whatever accomplishes these two tasks has successfully evolved through one more generation.
