For everyone: chromosomes and a chat with Occam

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: For everyone: chromosomes and a chat with Occam
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:23:58 -0700
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Matthew so kindly pointed out:
>Methinks a chat with Richard of Occam would be good for you. :-)

Maybe there was a bottlekneck effect that really favored multiply limbed or=20
allopolypliod mutation (and by the way, in plants, you can usually double t=
he=20
chromosomes and still get a viable (but perhaps not always fertile) plant -=20
it's a very common vegetable mutation).  Polyploidization restores fertilit=
y. =20
And this also supports my idea that all life is descended from terraformed=20
plants, that ate the animals, added their chromosomes to their own, and bec=
ame=20
them, only multiply limbed because of the chromosomal abberations.

All right. I will repeat this stuff one more time. If we have two huge plan=
ets=20
that are green and blue, and all those details that I brought up about the=20
moon's relative position, and how every change that Hoof notes from Urth an=
d=20
Blue can be accounted for by the coming of the New Sun (hoof emphasizes how=20
the color of the sea is different, mostly due to the Sun, and how salty the=20
water is TWICE ->and when the ice is melted, it is going to make the sea le=
ss=20
salty, and the sun will make the sea a different color), and how he CALLS L=
UNE=20
GREEN, and how all those little bits about the narrator's voice coming from=20
the distant past somewhere, versus a scruple about the Neighbors, who are=20
called THE PEOPLE OF THAT TOWN, with a Greater Scylla on both worlds, eithe=
r=20
of which can tell Silk where Seawrack is, and a big ass wall underwater tha=
t=20
Seawrack talks about, what would Occam say? (And why the heck does Malrubiu=
s=20
look like Silk?!) The spirits of the people of Nessus are angry at being=20
drowned.
But, as I've already said, I really don't care about this scruple.  I just=20
think it isn't too cool to ignore all those details from a writer like Wolf=
e. =20
What would Occam's Razor say? Throw out that double-limbed crap -> we know=20
that urth knew how to genetically engineer any kind of beast it wanted to, =
as=20
well as having encountered indigenous animals that can form as many limbs a=
s=20
they want in the inhumu - who can mysteriously feed on and become like both=20
the Vanished PEOPLE and regular people, too from eating their blood -> it's=20
pretty obvious these animals can change and adapt in one generation.  And t=
hat=20
those trees eat each other.

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