TREASURE AND VENGEANCE

competition for space in your magazine. For instance, Max observes that primitive organisms have light-sensitive cells, but he continues, "it is hard to imagine what process would further develop enough light-sensitive cells to form, all of a sudden, in some future generation, a working eye. Wouldn't the generation born one step from an eye meet with disaster? Having devoted so much energy to a functionless organ, wouldn't it be vulnerable to extinction?" Presumably, the light-sensitive cells of successive generations would confer an increasing competitive advantage, eventually developing into something like our modern eyes; they would neither be functionless, nor would they become functional "all of a sudden."