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On 24/11/2014 16:51, Rick Johnson wrote:
> EVOLUTION LOVES A WINNER!

I think evolution actually requires losers. Clearly there are more extinct 
species, peoples, languages etc etc than there are existing ones so perhaps if 
evolution 'loves' anything it 'loves' a loser.
-- 
Robin Becker