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. So your herd of clones will eventually acquire some genetic diversity and selection necessarily follows. Geez are we off-subject. David Honig honig@alum.mit.edu --------------------------------------------------- If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. -TJ