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Article #6570evolution of 'atomic' instincts
From: Eric Silber
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1991 00:28
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1991 00:28
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How is the evolution of 'atomic' instincts explained? By 'atomic' instinct, I mean a complex instinctual behaviour such as constructing a beehive. The initial advantageous mutation must be how close to the fixed evolution-selected instinct? Did the construction of beehives start with a bee with a mutation that just caused it cough up a lump of wax? An amorphous behavioural mutation too far from the finally selected stable instinct seems unlikely to converge to the final instinct no matter how many generations pass. It's clearly not magic or divine intervention that does it, but could there be some lamarckian channel that allows for accidentally performed proto-behaviours to be incorporated into the genome?????
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a7a9,93e405b52fd4382e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a7a9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-19 04:46:49 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!s.u-tokyo!ccut!sun-barr!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!jethro!exodus!orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM!silber From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.evolution Subject: evolution of 'atomic' instincts Message-ID: <20175@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 19 Sep 91 00:28:30 GMT Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Distribution: bionet Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 14