species and roles

[Carmine Colacino]

> Stefan Koenemann wrote
>
>>Terms like 'biological fate' and 'evolutionary role and tendencies' are
>>certainly vague, kind of wishy-washy, suggesting inevitable destination
>>(orthogenesis, to throw in another hard-digestible bite!).
>
> Sorry, I have to jump on that. Characterising orthogenesis this way is a
> product of propaganda promulgated by Simpson, Mayr, Gould, and many other
> supporters of Darwinain models of evolution.
>

> John Grehan
>

I agree, John was faster than me in pointing this out.
Orthogenesis does not imply any "inevitable" destination, but it only refers
to initial state's constraints

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