Dmcg, sounds like I have a different, less technical , less precision idea of information. This is how I understand it. Every living thing is DNA coded, the system of which decodes and implements the information (and much else involved too ). If for example there is in an original pair of birds with information encoded for a range of beak sizes and shapes, but their later offspring find themselves in an environment where the food source is favourable to one type of beak the information encoded for that favoured type will be preserved and passed on. Another with a beak unable to do well in obtaining the available food source will perhaps die out, and the information for that beak shape may be lost . As far as I know however, there has never been any system demonstrated for the information for any organism to become a creature of a different sort. I realise that the theory goes that the steps are so slowly incremental that they are invisible, but then, so is the theory...it cannot be evidenced and neither can it be falsified.