Chapter 11: Evolution

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Chapter 11: Evolution

Evolution combines random events, possibilities, probabilities, populations, and traits.

Traits are characteristics seen in individuals and shared usually in a population of similar individuals. Some are visible like skin colour, size, and motion. Some are invisible but easily identifiable like blood type, pH, and temperature. Some are difficult to discern like resistance to infection, endurance, and vulnerability of body parts like the heart or to cancer.

Traits are affected by genes and life experiences. A child might be born with genes for tallness but malnutrition when young could prevent those genes from being fully expressed. The connections between genes and life experiences are complex and vary for each trait. Many traits depend on several genes.

Within the first hundred million years of life, living things developed a very reliable system of copying genes for the creation of growth and new individuals. The error rate for this system is very low, perhaps less than 1 error in a billion replications (a replication is the copying of a chromosome with its included set of genes, mostly made of DNA.

Most mistakes either make very little, if any, difference, or are harmful or even lethal. Fewer than 1% of errors are helpful, but those errors contribute to populations changing.

Populations contain individuals that are similar but usually have variations that might be visible or invisible due to differences in some of their genes.

These differences provide the population with the potential for resiliency in responding to changes in their circumstances. If a critical change leads to a circumstance where survival is easier with certain differences, individuals with those differences will have a better chance to survive the change and reproduce. Individuals with differences that are unlikely to survive the change will disappear from the population. Individuals cannot adapt genetically to changes. Populations adapt to changes.
 
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Do you sense deeper perturbations about the topic evolution among people searching for an anchor? There are infinite spaces supporting such floaters and some sense no bottom to it! Thus flouted as different and alien as divine can get ... considering two haves of the sacred mind ... and many have lost their ever loving mind as things close in on them ... fear of confinement? Is there a means of reaching a medium between a closed soul and an infinitely stretched one? Is there fallout when the ether shatters ...

Is it possible to look at it from the alternate side ... like objectively from out there ... far cide? Mortals impose cide on everything ... patricide, matricide, genocide but no memo cide because Memnon was the lost portion ... the good-bye was un writ!

Memes are said to be parallel concerns to genes ... as something spontaneous arising from the ruins of the former through vegetation. They recycle continuously like post biotics as the last bit of what holds up the thing that collapsed ... but this, mind you appears as soul/psyche and there appears to be a dislike of them so they are denied and disputed ... even rejected as dark and mysterious to the very end ...

Something more to think about when encountering holes in the system of essences ... and yet thinking is vastly denied, generating holes where the ever loving mind left us! Don't you hate it when the end is incomplete ... so God as a vast mystery must go on and on ...

In the process one can create quantum domains (one might question what qua/quo/cui means or not) that shiver overhead ... in some traditions known as Shive or similar ... Zive, jive in transmutation? Leaving the fixed dancing ... even though that reject song and dance as too resonant to the alter parts as Bell and Clapper ... homologues, distinct hummers ... and the buzz continues! although the riddle of a bee bomb raises interest ...

Word is like that too given what we understand of much of it ...
 
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