Godwin, Arktos

[Dave Monroe]

I think the point there was that, given a constant,
even climate, there would be always be individual
specimens at any given stage of any given life-cycle. 
But many life-cycles are dependent on the seasons,
indeed.  I imagine, however, that the various
theorists of a once perpendicular to the plane of the
ecliptic earth might counter that, had the axis not
tilted, those seasonally-dependent life-cycles
wouldn't have evolved, either.  At any rate, I'm
citing Godwin paraphrasing a number of such theories,
theries already indeed of questionable (to say the
least) scientific merit,, with an eye toward
discussing, deconstructing, even, perhaps, notions of
the introduction of difference as leading to a Fall of
some sort, mythology, not biology, so ... 


--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Living in the near-tropical South, I know that many
> plants can't survive 
> without a period of dormancy.  Without such a rest
> they just run out of 
> juice and die.
> 
> >Plants would sprout, blossom, seed, and die in
> >obedience only to their innate rhythms.  The
> >charateristic vegetation of every land would always
> be
> >present, in every state of it life-cycle ... (13)
>
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