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[paigetheoracle]

Sorry to throw this in but wouldn't an analogy help here? Think of genetics or even social behaviourism as a paint palette. You can create an infinite variety of different shades from mixing the basic colours but eventually you're going to run out of even subtle differences, so that everything stagnates rather than evolves. Evolution is the interplay not only of materials but ideas and the transport of goods and thoughts, across cyberspace, TV and physically but what happens when every corner of the globe is in contact with each other over a period of time? Where is the new thought and material going to come from? Evolution requires a mixing of minds and bodies, to create a meld of something new that is part of each host's body/ mind - without this union there is no creativity but separation is also necessary to have something 'different' to interact with in the first place and therefore to discover anew (mystery to pursue - knowledge to accumulate or art and science, politics and religion, medicine and education).