Biological complexity: protozoa sans mitochondria (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 11:45 (2894 days ago) @ David Turell

David: ...at the same time the same events are covered equally well by the term natures' wonders. Why differentiate?-dhw; It's a very minor distinction, of no significance whatsoever in our discussion. I have made it since we started this discussion several years ago, probably when you introduced our much loved weaver nest, which I do not regard as a lifestyle but as a construction. Let's call them all nature's wonders from now on. The important point, of course, is the fact that until now you have always considered organisms incapable of organizing any of them.-DAVID: Haven't changed my mind.-And yet the free-ranging “phenotype complexifier mechanism” is capable of inventing “increasingly complex structural changes”, which “in some cases will lead to strange lifestyles as a secondary effect”. So organisms are capable of creating the changes to their bodies, but not of creating the lifestyles that result from them? Does that make sense?