Re: Hybrids

From: "Bonaventure W Magrys" magrysbo at shu.edu> on 2000.05.05 at 02:48:58(4537) "Perfect" organisms don't evolve. They are so well adapted (to their particular environment) that they do not change over the ages. Hence "evelutionary dead-ends" such as the horseshoe crab are more "perfect" than those organisms that had "gone on" (again a misconception of linear progressive [in human terms] +More thinking) towards more complexity, eg the spiders, the butterfly, more "advanced" arthopods all. Conflict, maladaptaiton forces evolution. The ape in the forest, unchanged for 10 million years or more, is not a "lesser" organism than those troops that a few million years ago foraged out into the African savannahs clumsily. BWM

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