Biology Week 2

It seems that evolution is a numbers game. Existence creates genetic variation via mutation and then takes a sit back and wait approach. On the human time frame millions of years of evolution seems like a long impossible, arduous journey but to the infinite universe it is a blink.

Not having a scientific mind it is hard for me to imagine segmenting DNA and breeding flies to learn how particular traits are passed on. I am quite happy to say that everything changes over time and move on, but part of genetic variation is that different minds function differently partly by nature, partly by nurture. The process of natural selection got us this far,the creation of all life as we know it out of the dust, so clearly we are part of a larger game.

Important to remind ourselves of and realize deeply is the adage that man did not weave the web of life, we are but a strand in it. Perhaps we are functioning precisely the way that our genes are telling us to, like apoptosis, programmed cell death, we have begun to kill ourselves off thru pollutions, overpopulation and altering our environment to make it uninhabitable to all but those who have the necessary new mutation.
 :-)

John