> I will challenge, however, an implication I detect in your position. You
> seem to assume that stochasticity will always result in divergence when
> running sets of evolutionary systems started from the same state (as with
> models of chaos). I think this conflicts with lots of evidence to the
> contrary showing generic aspects of systems (e.g., morphologies) that will
> emerge repeatedly. Convergent evolution is a putative example of this sort
> of thing. In other words, there seem to be both predictable kinds of
> outcomes and unpredictable kinds when dealing with complex dynamical
> systems. This is the main reason I am so taken by the notion of
> universalities.