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Re: Dinosaurs to birds
In a message dated 1/24/99 0:35:42 AM EST, jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:
<< Randomness and selection are close to antonymns. Would you agree that
artificial selection is not random? Then on what basis is natural
selection random? Is it just because we are too thick to perceive the
patterns? >>
Artificial selection is by definition not random, but natural selection is
indeed random. In fact, that's the difference between the two selection
processes.