Evolution Can Only Build on What is Already There

To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.

Notes:

Crick describing the clutter of nature.

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 What Mad Pursuit
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Crick , Francis (1990-07-10), What Mad Pursuit, Basic Books (AZ), Retrieved on 2012-03-17
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