Natural selection
<div class="IPBDescription">At least it isn't about cats infamous ;)</div>"Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will hae progeny.
Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward
experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a
selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the variations which is it screens.
Dune did not really answer those questions: it merely raised new questions
which Leto and the Sisterhood may attempt to answer over the next five hundred gererations.
- The Dune Catastrophe
After Harq al-Ada"
Yup, this was from Children of Dune, the third Dune book. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
At least it isn't about cats, Infamous. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward
experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a
selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the variations which is it screens.
Dune did not really answer those questions: it merely raised new questions
which Leto and the Sisterhood may attempt to answer over the next five hundred gererations.
- The Dune Catastrophe
After Harq al-Ada"
Yup, this was from Children of Dune, the third Dune book. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
At least it isn't about cats, Infamous. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->