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Re:FUCHSIA and the Ostrom Symposium Volume

George said:
>> It's evolutionarily much easier this way.

And Tim said:
>Who says?  And since when is evolution obliged to follow the path that's
>"easier"?


Errmm, isn't the basic axiom of cladism based around the (logically
untenable) assumption that evoultion follows the path that's "easier"
(i.e.most parsimonious)?


(...Ducking for cover...)
Colin

'Parsimony and biological evolution have nothing to do with each other'.