TomHendricks474 wrote:
> << Another way to look at it is as a random walk process.  Evolution
> tends to spread out organisms in all directions.  However, it started
> with simple things and there is a lower bound to how simple an
> organism can be and still be alive.  So there is necessarily an
> increase in average complexity with time. Still, most things remain
> simple.
>  >>
> 
> 
> If I am correct this is the Gould idea that he suggests as seen by a drunk
> leaving a bar.
> But this 'falls down' when you look at the option Gould never mentions. The
> drunk lays down and does not move at all .

And then he dies.  It's called no evolution, and leads to extinction.

Goulds' point is simply that if you start of simple, then the only 
direction to go is towards complexity.  If you're at the bottom, the 
only way to go is up...

Bob

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