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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Spencer Wells's journey continues

Spencer Wells's* TEDx Talk (and see A Family Tree for Humanity). Short message, convergently echoing Darwin and Mendel and the Lakota Sioux ("mitakuye oyasin") : we are all related.


It's true that no known entity in the universe is capable of (in Pete's phrase) "writing its own program" or, in other words, creating itself ex nihilo. We have no evidence for the existence of any such entity. Everything we know is the product of a design process, though not necessarily of directed and premeditated design. (see below**)

But biological self-replication, as Don so effectively demonstrated tonight, is a reality. And just look at how the banana has evolved. Bon apetit! 
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* [Don, Spencer Wells is on Twitter: @spwells ... also, can you update us all on your Banks Turner research breakthrough?]

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