RE: Some questions on evolution
May 31, 2014 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2014 at 11:21 am by Chas.)
(May 31, 2014 at 11:14 am)vodkafan Wrote:(May 31, 2014 at 10:52 am)Esquilax Wrote: No. No I don't agree with that. Mostly because I provided two examples of things becoming less complex off the top of my head in the paragraph preceding the line you quoted.
Hi Esquilax, I don't accept losing teeth and toes and whales going back in the water as becoming less complex; they are just adaptations. The modern whale is probably more intelligent, has a better brain than the creature that was a proto-whale that lumbered about on land a few million years back. It has not got less complex. It has just adapted to the water and evolved.
We will probably have to agree to differ on that one, unless somebody else wants to jump in on one side or the other and shed some light.
You have a weird definition of complexity, then. A species evolves becoming simpler, but that's not less complex?
You need to read a book on evolution by a real evolutionary biologist.
As far as a 'drive to complexity', the vast majority of life (in numbers and in total mass) on earth is single-celled. So, no drive.
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