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Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point — which is very good. We’re still overcommitted to tree-like “directed acyclic” mental models of evoluti
by prionassembly 5y ago
Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point — which is very good. We’re still overcommitted to tree-like “directed acyclic” mental models of evolution and life itself, despite convergent evolution (there are sea mammals?! there are sea mammals!!), epigenetics, horizontal gene transfer, wasp and orchid-type feature transfer…
- wombatmobile 5y ago> Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point Thanks for your comment about my comment. Why do you think we're overcommitted to tree-like directed-acyclic mental modes of evolution?
- lurquer 5y agoThe urge of (some) humans to rationalise their worldview in terms of woody perinneal plants?