[FRIAM] random v stochastic v indeterminate

[Nick Thompson]

Well, I am not sure the weight of Wagner's presentation supports that conclusion. 

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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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Heh, so you *agree* with Wagner that natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them?

On 08/22/2017 11:21 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Wagner seems to support utterly my intuition that what the genome offers up is not random mutations but hypotheses for good living.  The idea of evolution groping blindly through morphology space is absurd. 

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