[FastCoyote]

[Sometimes brains get bigger. Sometimes they get smaller. And sometimes, they stay the same]

You certainly went out on a with that prediction. :)

[FastCoyote]

out on a limb, sigh

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.

Think about that for a while.

[EnderWiggins]

"You certainly went out on a with that prediction. :)

lol... oh much further than merely out on a (limb).

It's actually a very, very important point if one really wants to understand evolution, or respond to some of the classic Creationist canards like, "why are there still apes?"

The caricature of evolution is that it is some sort of inexorable unrolling from simple to complex, when in fact the overwhelming evidence is that it is non directional. Sometimes it goes from simple to complex. Sometimes from complex to simple. Most of the time it just goes sideways.

For example, bacteria rule the planet. They have always ruled the planet. They probably will always rule the planet. We glibly talk about "The age of reptiles," or "The age of mammals."

In point of fact, it has always been "The age of bacteria."

;)