Why do living creatures want to move so much?
Moreover, in most cases or in fact always, they move in spite of
high risks.
Is it because the Darwin's old-fashioned theory of evolution namely
'the survival of the fittest' is still justified?
Even from an amateur's angle, they have been really dangerous adventures,
or more rightly saying, 'foolhardy' or 'unprecedented' adventures.
Is it a 'code' which has been concealed in a magic box in deep genes
since life had been born on earth billions years ago?
For instance, in the case of the 'living creatures' movement onto
the land', did they have a rough idea as to their capacity for changing
their frame which had easily been made by using a buoyancy of water
into one which could hold on gravity or make a 'portable womb' such
as an egg covered with a shell?
Even as for the adaptable survival mechanism named an 'amphibian',
it seems to be a kind of 'second guessing' no matter my favorite
observation.
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For instance, in the case of the 'human beings' movement to the Magellan
Strait', did gods give them any revelation or promise that they would
be able to gain more healthful environment or plentiful food in the
utterly unknown American Continent beyond the Bering Strait, it might
be correct to call a 'land strait' in those periods, than the long-familiar
African Continent or Eurasian Continent?
People who had lived in the South East Asian islands could understand
that they could return to their starting point even in the worst case
because it should have been common knowledge that the 'earth is round',
however did they prepare for living on by eating fish only everyday
unless they could discover inhabitable land without knowing how many
days it took for returning?
They might have been troubled with the lack of fresh water above all
things, however how the 'Polynesians' movement on the oceans was determined
justly?
In the case of the 'plants' movement by pollen, plants sustaining
their life by taking root in earth deeply, might have been good at
such performances as fruiting heavily, getting birds to eat fruits
and bring seeds far away, or enticing insects into colorful flowers
and getting insects to assist hybridizing flowers with distant ones
by daubing insects with pollens. However, it also seems to be a kind
of 'second guessing. Whoever has plotted out the whole 'master mechanism'?
Such 'peculiarity of living creatures towards moving paranoically'
has long been coming down to humankind.
Young Alexander the Great should have achieved his purpose by pulling
down a great enemy before him, the Persian Empire, however he made
an expedition as far as the Indus River and easily died of disease
on his way back.
Genghis Khan of Mongol also became into the expansion of possessions
which far surpassed a nomadic social system, although he should have
well known that too large possessions would bring few utility to a
nomadic society, I think.
Even Basho who reached the zenith of the Haiku world through 'Okuno
Hosomichi (Deep Path)' was possessed by the idea of 'plotting out
Haiku while he was moving' in spite of the glamour of Tohoku (northeastern)
district as the object of Haiku. I often think so.
It is me who has been writing a blog while I am moving, well, what
shall I do?
The attached photograph is my favorite 'Polynesian navigation chart'
which is made with coconut stem and shell. The shells indicate the
connection of Island locations while the coconut stems indicate the
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