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Old December 27th, 2006, 03:06 PM
James Brody James Brody is offline
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Default A Bloody Burger & Chuck Darwin

"Darwin's real revolution consisted in the epistemological reorientation that had to occur before the variational mechanism could even be formulated. It was a change in the object of study from the average or modal properties of groups to the variation between individuals within them. That is, the variation itself is the proper object of biological study, for it is the ground of biological being. Without it, there would have been no evolution and therefore no living biological world, for (p. 67) the earliest proto-life would have long since made the world uninhabitable for its own kind." Lewontin, 2001, p. 66.
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Such were not my thoughts when I entered a diner and asked for a rare burger.
The teenager looked at me from under a mass of curls and said, "Medium is the best we can do."

Such is the outcome of a Federal rule that wants to protect us by making us all the same.
I returned to my EEA: "But, you've done it before!"

Miss Teen hesitated and consulted with the cook, a solid black guy dressed in whites, a thin goatee, and an easy smile.
He shouted through the service window, "Hey man, how you been?"
"Hi! It's me! (I'd never seen this guy before!) I need a rare burger!"
"How red you want it?"
"Dripping red from its middle!" (the way God and Darwin intended).
"No problem!"

I packed away the dripping wonderful mess and needed two napkins to get the extra juice off of my hands and out of my goatee.
The owner greeted me, "How was that medium rare hamburger?"
"Medium be damned, it was glorious!"

The owner smiled and went back to counting his receipts, the waitress was more respectful, and the cook probably also remembered the old days when fresh, warm meat bled. Darwin was right, variation is the proper measure of evolution and if you vary, you will work a bit harder to suit your nature.

JimB

Reference
Lewontin, R. (2001) It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2nd Ed.) NY: New York Review of Books, pp. 77-108.

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