^^^Samseau
Yes, if there were no mutations no advanced lifeforms would exist. We'd have got about as far as Amoeba's, if that. For the reasons you state. No variation = nothing for natural selection to work with. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Not only with respect to biological development and evolution, but human culture as well. This is also the reason that any attempts to compress cultural and material "outcomes" through government edict are comical and doomed to failure. Nature not only abhors a vacuum, it also abhors compression (of outcomes). Because universal Darwinism demands variation, so that it can do it's thing.
This is also a good lens to view one's own personal misfortune through. As tough as it seems it cannot be otherwise. Everyone must have their share of misfortune, because if nature "allowed" individuals to choose their own best outcomes all outcomes would be compressed into a tiny zone. Again, leading to stagnation on account of nature not having anything to work with.
Yes, if there were no mutations no advanced lifeforms would exist. We'd have got about as far as Amoeba's, if that. For the reasons you state. No variation = nothing for natural selection to work with. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Not only with respect to biological development and evolution, but human culture as well. This is also the reason that any attempts to compress cultural and material "outcomes" through government edict are comical and doomed to failure. Nature not only abhors a vacuum, it also abhors compression (of outcomes). Because universal Darwinism demands variation, so that it can do it's thing.
This is also a good lens to view one's own personal misfortune through. As tough as it seems it cannot be otherwise. Everyone must have their share of misfortune, because if nature "allowed" individuals to choose their own best outcomes all outcomes would be compressed into a tiny zone. Again, leading to stagnation on account of nature not having anything to work with.