Richard Goodale writes:
> It may be that someday the lion will lie down with the lamb (or the
> gazelle), but until that day, if I were a gazelle, I would hope that my
> species continued to have highly competitive mating strategies that
> ensured that the genes of our species were optimised to foster the ability
> to avoid the predatory instincts of the lions. And, if I were a lion, I
> would hope that the highly competitive mating strategies of my species
> continued to favor those genes that ameliorated our collective ability to
> capture and feed upon the gazelles.
Let's not wander down that path; I don't think it provides any useful
analogies for the kinds of competition that may be useful to a learning
organization. And just to get the facts straight, lions and gazelles
don't compete with each other in the Darwinian model; lions compete with
hyenas and other large predators, while gazelles compete with other
grazing ungulates.
--Don Dwiggins "The capacity to blunder slightly is the SEI Information Technology real marvel of DNA." d.l.dwiggins@computer.org Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail
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