Better Halves
Jan. 25th, 2007 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
watchmakers_sonFrom chapter one of Activating Evolution:
Evolution is born out of recognition of a species' flaws: a weakness in design, a need for survival that can only be brought about by a change to the self. It is a constant strive toward perfection on nature's part. Yet with this perfection unattainable -- for no living creature can be said to be perfect -- it also becomes a sequence of constant adjustment; each larger change builds upon a foundation of successively smaller ones, with every shift just as necessary and important as the grandest of shifts they target. Some shifts may even appear, at first, to be a step backward, as genetics temporarily turns its attention to a proven design with the intention of beginning from a new angle.
(He used to read the newspaper every morning over breakfast. He stopped, though, not too long after meeting Chandra. Only recently has he begun to do so again.)
From every major news outlet as the story trickles down the AP wire, October 2nd:
TRAIN DERAILS, EXPLODES; Mysterious Good Samaritan Saves Man.
From the Odessa Register, October 5th:
Odessa Honors Local Hero.
The girl's name doesn't appear on any of the maps or lists. That doesn't matter.
Sylar knows where to go next.
Evolution is born out of recognition of a species' flaws: a weakness in design, a need for survival that can only be brought about by a change to the self. It is a constant strive toward perfection on nature's part. Yet with this perfection unattainable -- for no living creature can be said to be perfect -- it also becomes a sequence of constant adjustment; each larger change builds upon a foundation of successively smaller ones, with every shift just as necessary and important as the grandest of shifts they target. Some shifts may even appear, at first, to be a step backward, as genetics temporarily turns its attention to a proven design with the intention of beginning from a new angle.
(He used to read the newspaper every morning over breakfast. He stopped, though, not too long after meeting Chandra. Only recently has he begun to do so again.)
From every major news outlet as the story trickles down the AP wire, October 2nd:
TRAIN DERAILS, EXPLODES; Mysterious Good Samaritan Saves Man.
From the Odessa Register, October 5th:
Odessa Honors Local Hero.
The girl's name doesn't appear on any of the maps or lists. That doesn't matter.
Sylar knows where to go next.
