tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post6944489709361812505..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Capture the flag...or, the slipperly slope of selection?Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-6316540514944787722010-07-17T12:12:15.070-04:002010-07-17T12:12:15.070-04:00Very good question! Though, I suppose the argumen...Very good question! Though, I suppose the argument would be that as these separate coffee species were evolving, Natural Selection in France (the drinker) wasn't aware of what it was missing elsewhere and so encouraged the local variety to proliferate. (In fairness to French coffee, though -- since I've had much less experience with Italian -- I do like a cup of cafe au lait in France in the morning!)Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-69825079923574466712010-07-17T11:27:15.542-04:002010-07-17T11:27:15.542-04:00Hey, I have another argument in favor of your comp...Hey, I have another argument in favor of your complexity theories: <br />if Survival of the Fittest worked so strictly, how could French coffee have survived alongside Italian and Spanish coffee?? <br />Right?!amiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01935376634550745025noreply@blogger.com