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Author Topic:   [Almost] Convergent Evolution?
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Message 10 of 12 (596299)
12-14-2010 9:41 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Just being real
12-14-2010 8:31 AM


Just being real writes:
So if you and I both went to the train station (though we are starting from two different cities), and randomly started picking locations of travel, even though we both experienced the same weather and financial obligations etc... you are saying the likelihood is that with a million different choices at each rout that with in five hundred trips we would eventually both wind up at the same station, just by different routs?
No, he is saying that you might both have similarly interesting vacations, and interesting for similar reasons, even though you took your vacation trips to different places. We might call that "convergent vacationing experiences".

Jesus was a liberal hippie

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