Friday 21 August 2015

Natural selection in the context of overarching variation in 'constants' (2015)


I was looking at black swans and seeing brontosauruses, which got me to wondering along non-Darwinian lines out of dissatisfaction with that model & yet acceptance at least of the mechanism of selectional pressure at the heart of it.

Neither the north pole nor the strength of gravity have any intention of sitting still, so it is possible that their wanderlust has significant effects on, for instance, the  bone density & frames of fauna the world over.

Shifts in constants to which some are sensitive both within and without, aligned as it were with "the tide in the affairs of men", may produce significant effects on the cognition and interaction of generations, peoples, nations, everything that depends on everything else in the equation.

So, I am curious to know whether the model of life actually follows  these varying 'constants' more so than agreeing with the mainstream Darwinian model; or if it agrees, then as the plum pudding model to the present double candelabra of progressively tinier particles & vaster galactic structures.


I am curious to know, in other words, not so much whether Darwinian evolution is false as whether it is filagree. For it would seem likely that natural selection is subordinate to larger variation in constants.



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