Monday, June 15, 2009

Staying Put

"One of the big changes made in mid-nineteenth century biology was the notion that natural selection is a force for change.  It's not.  Natural selection is a force for staying put... What you've got to do is change in such a way that the system of changing has a certain steadiness, a certain balance."

Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) in Sacred Unity:  Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

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