On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 04:14:23AM -0400, Richard Aiken wrote:
> IIRC, the point was that parts of the cycle do not do anything useful to
> *that* organism.

That's the incorrect and/or obsolete part.  Fragments of the cycle
(without the rest of the cycle) *do* perform useful functions.
Perhaps that wasn't known when your text was written.

> You can't get incremental improvement of such cycles. It's all or
> nothing.

You most certainly can and we have seen such incremental impro... ah
fuck it.  This is off topic, and you're not really reading what I'm
writing anyway.

- Tim