Thoughts on evolution

[(Dave Lewis) <dnl@xxxxxxxxx>]

In a lighter vein than the cladistic discussion of late, I came across the 
following:

"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which 
is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in 
tune with the mysterious cycles of the Cosmos, which believes that there's 
nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to 
give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone."

(Terry Pratchett 1991 `Reaper Man'.)


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