From: Martin Nowak < I > To: Corina Tamita Cc: Jeevacation <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:09:43 +0000 and i can set it to the most beautiful and transcendent music yet written On Nov 16, 201O, at 10:46 AM, Corina Tarnita wrote: > defection is not necessarily bad. we think it's bad because locally > every species wants to preserve the status quo. but in the long run > defection might be necessary to lead to evolvability and complexity. > that's why after billions of years of evolution we still retain > within ourselves the ability to defect. > > so i think the right question is not "what can we do to defend > ourselves against defection?" but rather "how much defection is > needed for evolvability?" > > c EFTA00751840