I'm nearing the end of my (first?) scan of "Evolution without Selection" by Antonio Lima-de-Faria. I really enjoy alternatives to the dominant theories. They help me understand more about the claims of the dominant theory, as well as ways in which it might be false. For example, I learned quite a bit about fossil fuels reading Gold's "Deep Hot Biosphere".
LdF's concept of autoevolution is very cool and I'm wondering why/whether more people don't/do talk about it. Is it because in the years since he wrote the book, neo-Darwinism has refined selection and encompassed autoevolution? (This is what I suspect.) Or is it that some of his rhetoric (which seems to consist mostly of ad hoc morphological analogies) is too weak to be useful? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
