How did Evolution produce Symmetry?

Quote: "If it's part of natural selection, then why is it that no one has found any fossils that have more legs on one side or more eye sockets on one side, or something like that? Wouldn't there at least be fossils? Isn't it more likely that we'd find at least some fossils that were not very symmetrical than it is that all the symmetrical fossils that have been found were found." CoD-2516Does it have to be a fossil, or will the several species of flatfish like flounder suffice?

Q: "How would flatfish "champions" reconcile their favored species' evolutionary path of asymmetry with that of Information Theory?"
A: To survive by filling a niche.S: "Your positions on other points have been established."
Q: Are you talkin' to me?Q: "Does I.T. preclude their asymmetry?"
A: No.Q: "Tell me, what do *you* think??"
A: I think I.T. is just another way of expressing the economy of nature.Now, tell me how a Sassafrass tree with its three distinctly and differently shaped leaves fits into *your* theory of I.T.?[This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-15-2003][This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-15-2003]

Asymmetry would be the product of necessity outweighing practical economy.

An asymmetrical adaptation for the purposes of assuming a niche and thereby taking advantage of an opportunity for survival does not necessarily mean "that the (asymmetrical) animals ... would die ..."Rather I am saying that if the asymmetrical animal (or plant) successfully assumes certain non-symmetrical features for purposes of protection/survival, that those species would continue to specialize with those features and in that niche.I supplied two examples: The flatfish (an animal) and the Sassafrass tree (a plant) that have successfully developed asymmetrical features.Rei answered the "most of which would become fossils" misconception.

Re: Asymmetrical individuals not being able to move very fast or adeptly.Okay, COD, you may be onto something here. Maybe, just maybe, an asymmetrical individual would not have the motor coordination of a symmetrical individual, and when trying to escape an onrushing primordal mudflow from the Deluge would spin, sputter, flop, and flounder out of control and fall over the edge of the flat earth and once outside the razor thin field of gravity would caroom into outer space![This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-15-2003][This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-15-2003]

COD:Your homework and subsequent success in education is far more important than your participation in this or any other discussion forum. Do not this discussion interfere with doing well in school. Peace.