Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: The Impact of Inventions Message-ID: <2184@hplabsc.HP.COM> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 14:07:48 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2184 Posted: Tue Jul 7 14:07:48 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 01:59:35 EDT References: <2041@hplabsc.HP.COM> Sender: taylor@hplabsc.HP.COM Distribution: world Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 12 Approved: taylor@hplabs 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