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[John Grehan]

>Is anyone else uncomfortable with "evolutionary tendencies" and "biological
>fate?"  When stuff like this can be part of a supposedly scientific
>concept, I wonder where the Science Police that are usually so quick to
>jump on this list might be.

>Bill Shear

Though not a member of the "Science Police", I find myself in some
agreement with these observations. "Maintain its identify" certainly lends
itself to acceptance of an species essence. Evolutionary tendency might be
acceptable (to me at least) if the evolution of a lineage involves a
certain bias in the kind of evolutionary novelties that arise. I don't know
what "biological fate" is in this context.

john Grehan