Natural Selection Works with Existing Material

Published Jun 6, 2012 by ideonexus

It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

François Jacob, Evolution and Tinkering (1977)

Notes

Novelty arises from unseen association of old material.

evolution
natural selection

References

Evolution and Tinkering Journal Article

Schemas

Not in any schema.

Triples

Not related to other memes yet.

Watson’s reading

Tags generated by IBM Watson from the text. Percentages are its confidence.

Concepts

Natural selection DBpedia Freebase
Biology DBpedia Freebase OpenCyc
Charles Darwin DBpedia Freebase OpenCyc
Life DBpedia Freebase
Novelty item DBpedia Freebase
Species OpenCyc Freebase DBpedia
Artificial selection Freebase DBpedia
On the Origin of Species Freebase YAGO DBpedia

Keywords

unseen association, Existing Material Novelty, previously unseen association, natural selection, old material, orients chance, new organs, complex structures, new species, Novelties, direction