From: "John Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Fritz Watches Wizard of Oz One Time Too Many
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:29:13 -0500


>If you do enough of these little experiments, a lesson begins to emerge:
Every
>stage is a transitional one. (Hey -- it's sort of like "Beyond Good and
>Evil"!) Selection in favor of a trait has to begin with a certain facility,
>and from there it is _behavior_ (usually food getting strategy) that
>frequently provides the selective advantage.  The populations that "evolve"
>are not the ones that win the competition for an ecological niche, they are
>the ones that get pushed to the fringe and then have the adaptive
>"transitional" traits that allow them to adopt new behaviors to cope.
>Fritz


Yeah Fritz, it was a great movie. Like you, I loved the part where Dorothy
and the Tinman pissed off the apple trees and got them to throw their
apples. I try the same thing on this list, but all I get is bad apples in
return. Anyhow, my point is, it was only a movie. Tough break there. Try
spending a day at an apple orchard and observing the apple trees, then get
back with us and let the list know if you observed any behavior whatsoever.
If you think you did, consult a mental health care professional or call
Steve if you simply are looking for a good rationalisation.

Back to the drawing boards as we engineer's say. Need to come up with a
theory of evolution which includes minor details like the plant kingdom.

John T. Duryea



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