Every time a creature with a genetic system is born, a new and unique genetic system is created, unique because it”s a mixture of the genetic systems of its parents. It”s a random mixture like no other genetic system in the world, for a genetic system contains a lot of genes. The unique genetic system determines what the progeny looks like. It may look like a great, great-great-grandparent, but, inside, it may be like someone who has never lived before. It”s always a surprise and when the progeny marries and the new couple reproduces, there”s a new progeny that”s usually to some degree, but not quite, like its parents. It always has some likenesses to bother parents, perhaps not all of them apparent. Not all of them apparent because they are likenesses in emotion, or character and not in exterior features.
Sometimes the genetic system is wrong for survival and the progeny is born dead, or lives only a short time and sometimes the progeny is born more fit for survival in the situate environment than any then extant and a new and fitter lineage is begun. Hence evolution from the inside, from the genes.
Evolution from the outside is still from the genes, but indirectly so. The motivating conditions are from the outside, from environmental experience.
The warning instinct is the ideal parameter to illustrate evolution from the outside, from experience. In the early evolution of man, as we know from archaeological evidence, the environment was one of constant danger. Unremitting vigilance was necessary. The most desired for mating of the members of human society were the strongest and most able warriors. As a consequence, the ablest warriors fathered a majority of the children, loading the human gene pool radically toward warring tendencies and abilities.
Hence the present day propensity to take up arms. It”s in the genes, instinctive. We must work it out by way of intelligence.
Dean Sparks
Lucerne
