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eppur_se_muova

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5. Evolution is not a tape that can be rewound and replayed.

Reply to Chin music (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 12, 2021, 06:59 PM

Oct 2021

There will be plenty of evolution to come, but its exact course is unpredictable. Some new additions to the present phyla, some new phyla. Parallel evolution may produce creatures that look like long-dead forms, but are not the same -- cf. ichthyosaurs, sharks, porpoises.

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