EFTA02417832.pdf

To: Cc: [email protected]] From: Martin Nowak Sent: Tue 11/16/2010 6:09:43 PM Subject: Re: and i can set it to the most beautiful and transcendent music yet written On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:46 AM, wrote: > defection is not necessarily bad. we think it's bad because locally > every species wants to preserve the status quo. but in the long run > defection might be necessary to lead to evolvability and complexity. > that's why after billions of years of evolution we still retain > within ourselves the ability to defect. > so i think the right question is not "what can we do to defend > ourselves against defection?" but rather "how much defection is > needed for evolvability?" > c EFTA_R1_01482890 EFTA02417832