# Dollo's Law... *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 16 May 2011* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *16 May 2011, 15:10* ... appears to be more, well, a guideline. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162538.htm ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes ``` --- ### DAVID STOCKHOFF *16 May 2011, 15:27 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* Like most of these Laws turn out to be. "... In 2003, scientists showed that some species of insects have gained, lost and regained wings over millions of years." That's a good example of a common-sense reversible adaptation. If humans experienced million-year floods every million years, we might evolve, devolve, and revolve webbed fingers and toes---because the original structure from which the webs were derived are still going to be around. Evolution uses the tools at hand. Tress have used and re-used the same basic leaf shapes for millions of years. I have forgotten the trait that brought up Dollo's Law---mind projection? mimicry? opposable thumbs? > --- On Mon, 5/16/11, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes > Subject: (urth) Dollo's Law... > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 11:10 AM > ... appears to be more, well, a > guideline. > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162538.htm > > -- > Dan'l Danehy-Oakes > _______________________________________________ --- ### Jeff Wilson *16 May 2011, 16:47 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > On 5/16/2011 10:10 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > ... appears to be more, well, a guideline. > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162538.htm This looks like part of the stuff I mentioned the last time we went around on Dollo, or maybe the time before. I am so glad that I didn't just imagine it. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ``` ---