Talk:Largest-scale trends in evolution

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The presentation of Turney's model as exhibiting a largest-scale trend is not unbiased. For a trend to be largest-scale, it should be exhibited in all environments, including unchanging environments. Given that Turney's model can only claim to exhibit the trend in highly dynamic environments, the portrayal of the model as a largest-scale trend is a dubious one.

The use of the word 'even' in the sentence "This trend persists even when the local environment undergoes repeated random changes" is misleading and implies 'not only'; 'even' should at least have been substituted with the word 'only'. There seems no good reason to have used the word 'even' here other than to suggest that the model is more of a largest-scale trend that it can reasonably be claimed to. Of course, this change would further affirm doubts about whether the trend can be considered largest-scale.

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[edit] merge with Evolutionary progress

I suggested this, with my reasons given at Talk:Evolutionary progress.Mycroft7 14:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)