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Point of clarification:

>It occurs to me that there may be a parallel between evolution of life
>forms and the "short-term profit motive" Priddle mentions above.
>
> L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. 

This has been referred as the Ontogeny and Phylogeny argument.  If you
wish to consider it further, Steve Gould has his classic text book
by the same name published in 1977 on the subject.

--eugene miya