Well, I am not sure the weight of Wagner's presentation supports that 
conclusion. 

N

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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Heh, so you *agree* with Wagner that natural selection can preserve 
innovations, but it cannot create them?

On 08/22/2017 11:21 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Wagner seems to support utterly my intuition that what the genome offers up 
> is not random mutations but hypotheses for good living.  The idea of 
> evolution groping blindly through morphology space is absurd. 

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