From: Bill Lucy 

In article , georger{at}nls.net says...
> I don't think they can prove this. Evolution has a goal. Or more precisely,
> a direction from simpler to more complex, from weaker to stronger to
> intelligent. As intelligence has become the leading goal I think the next
> will probably be life span (because the longer one lives the more knowledge
> they can attain) or genetic memory.

In my somewhat limited understanding of evolution, the simpler->complex
construct is not supported. Bacteria, for instance, are not complex, but
from an evolutionary standpoint they have flourished beyond any more
complex organisms.

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