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<td>Re: 13.2673, Disc: Darwinism & Evolution of Language</td>
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<td>Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:41:29 -0400</td>
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<td>"H.M. Hubey" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hubeyh@mail.montclair.edu"><hubeyh@mail.montclair.edu></a></td>
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LINGUIST List wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:43:47 EDT
>From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nemonemini@aol.com">Nemonemini@aol.com</a>
>Subject: Re: 13.2645, Disc: Darwinism & Evolution of Language
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>Part of your argument is invalid; evolution as seen by Darwinism or
>Evolution Theory is not simply "random genetic evolution", but
>mutation AND selection. The former is random, the latter obviously
>not.
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Actually this is simply a matter of definition. It goes like this:
random + deterministic = random
random*deterministic = random
The former is "additive noise" and the latter "multiplicative noise",
and both are random. "Random" is not
equal to "uniforrmly random", thus one can find broadbrush patterns in
random phenomena.
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