APPENDIX Z51: Galapagos
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APPENDIX Z51:
Galapagos
I, as well, traveled to
the Galapagos Islands. Not on the
the Galapagos Islands. Not on the
HMS Beagle (c. 1835),
but via HMS Boeing (December
but via HMS Boeing (December
2006), 171 years later.
My reaction – after surveying the incredible giant
Tortoises, the exotic
erce-looking but harmless
erce-looking but harmless
iguana, and the surreal pastel-blue footed
seabirds (the
seabirds (the
‘Blue-footed booby’) – was that Mr. Darwin, for all his
greatness, had missed “the main event.”
One does not need Galapagos to discern the core
themes of Natural Selection. One might very well,
however, employ Galapagos,
to discern Quest for
to discern Quest for
Potential
∞
/Extraordinariation.
Isolated from the South American mainland, (500
miles
miles
west of Ecuador), the sundry Galapagos species had
their own survival/extraordinariation evolutionary
calculus.
calculus.
The threats were quite
different and the resources/
different and the resources/
environment were quite
different. In sum total, it was a
different. In sum total, it was a
unique, stand-alone environment within-which to
evolve.
evolve.
Differently. With a little Extraordinariaton thrown-in.
