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The Panda Principle

ozone.wordpress.com — Stephen Jay Gould's Panda Principle and its manifestations in IT: Dvorak keyboard layout, Smalltalk and OSX.

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  • bardcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I haven't read the book, so maybe I should because the bit that's puzzling me might be answered in here. I'm not sure if the Panda Principle makes sense when I think about it...... But, surely, it's likely that evolution of the panda's paw arrangement is the best one possible for everything a panda does - climb trees, eat bamboo, whatever. Local vs Global doesn't come into it, because the Panda just does stuff that a Panda does. Comparing a Panda with a Human, and saying that the Human opposable thumb is better for grasping can't be true for what a Panda needs ..... surely .....

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