Last issue, (Search “Lax”), I presented evolution’s three collaborative yet contentious cooks—variation, selection, and retention—and assigned them nicknames that express their personalities:
1. Lax: Loose variation, going with the flow
2. Axe: Discerning selection, the cut that accepts some things and rejects others
3. Ox: Persistent retention, stubbornly asserting itself to do more of the same
This week I [...]