[cap-talk] cap-talk Digest, Vol 59, Issue 6

[Steve Witham]

>  > 2009/2/2 Steve Witham <sw at tiac.net <mailto:sw at tiac.net>>
>>
>  >     Evolution seems to have crossed the gap between compound and
>  >     single eyes in both directions.
>
>From: Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk>
>
>What I have said I did not verify (bee eye being or not being able to
>evolve into human eye. Please forget that).

I didn't mean it was a bad analogy.  Just that the bee eye side of the
analogy happens not to be true!  The idea of being stuck on an
evolutionary local peak is a very important one.

But if some people refuse to cross the valley,
we may still be able to build them a bridge.

  --Steve