Selectric Evolution is not strictly along the lines of monkeys banging typewriters randomly.If you make it so that every time they get the letter in sequence(for instance,in the opening scene of a Midsummer night's dream "Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour".)the letter is kept. (e.g.) cvjN;riebsdfbvf,lO'Wdtpetyotyiopenc. I randomly typed that (honest) and I have already typed the first word which I redid to capitals.This would be analogous to how the enviroment of Earth acts upon life through natural selection.It can be random tiny changes in the genetic makeup of an individual animal or it can be random global changes in weather or food availabilty acting on an entire species or even many species. The events are random in that there is no way to be certain in a prediction of an occurence.It is when animals in response to the changes either adapt or die. Dead they produce no offspring. Adapted they are stronger than what went before in relation to that particular crisis.
Seems pretty straight forward hmmm?
[This message has been edited by sidelined, 09-13-2003]
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