-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, David Honig wrote: [...]
At 01:28 AM 1/11/98 +1100, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
If you have a population of unchanging clones (your typical 'master race') you don't get any evoltion or improvement.
A population *must* undergo variation in its heriditary units since 1. there's always errors in copying the code 2. equivalently, you can't drive the error rate of a channel down to 0, just arbitrarily close.
This is true, of cause if you have a population like this that will most likely get killed off by the next pathogen. - -- Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNLqxNqQK0ynCmdStAQGaXAQA2THcmQ62FS4qIfH/zhmADK58zR+uaaVG B+pyTIB5hHiybxE9hW9jTWrzQIDsWQQ9gAh9ScOVM0xYJwCoU2gPwLNa16Yl7+2L z7dkLoA2bt4wfDVLNxN8lDafxzWOW5Yzw4BYB3CR6/milnZaVqXhnumTblwZ0zKe fXzYKFE0VYU= =GLu8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----