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John Wilkins wrote:

Dylan wrote:
Bobby D. Bryant wrote:

On Tue, 17 May 2005, "Dylan" wrote:


Bobby D. Bryant wrote:

On Tue, 17 May 2005, wrote:


survival of the fitest is based on chance.

SotF describes a _bias_ to chance.

Explain, Spock.

SotF means that those that are "more fit" are more likely to survive
and reproduce. Chance still plays a role -- even the fittest might
be struck by lightning before breeding -- but chance isn't the *only*
thing that goes into the determination of which creatures reproduce
and which don't.

I.e., SotF _biases_ the chance.

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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas


Do you mean that cave fish that have evolved into blindness are more
fit than their ancestors?

That may very well be the case - the cost of building eyes is not
insubstantial.

And a large part of the brain to support it. It's like those battle
tgames where you are given a number of points and are allowed to buy
attributes for you characters with those points.

There are more rats in NYC than humans. And I am sure more cockroaches
than rats.

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Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people.