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To: montanus
I would wager that the species which follows us will be taller than the species which preceded us. Looking through the human fossil record of the past few thousand years provides ample intermediary evidence of steadily increasing heights.

The only gaps within the evolutionary ladder are those created by the passage of time. The period of time in which a succeeding species loses its ability to procreate with its preceding species. In the event that two groups of the same species undergo this progression in isolation from one another, then the succeeding species will also be unable to reproduce with one another. As they continue to diverge and diversify, you will eventually have dozens, hundreds, even thousands of species no longer able to procreate with one another and which have developed into radically different forms as patterned by their environments.

I would wager a strong guess that we would have a relatively difficult time reproducing with an ancient Hebrew. This would not mean it would be impossible, but that it would be more difficult than reproducing with a contemporary American. As our descendents continue to gradually evolve, then they would eventually find it impossible to reproduce with that same ancient Hebrew. Even farther down the line, they would find it similarly difficult and eventually impossible to reproduce with our contemporaries.

I base my conclusion in part on the difficulties of any other race conceiving children with Australian Aborigines. The difficulty arises because Aborigines have been divorced from the remainder of the human family tree the longest. It's not impossible, but it's less probable because of this chronological divide and the genetic drift which has taken place.
123 posted on 10/11/2002 11:46:00 PM PDT by AntiGuv
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To: AntiGuv
An Aborigine is still homo sapians sapains. The are still far, far above chimpanzees.

Regarding the difficulty of interbreeding with Aborignes, I do not know anything about that. Only I assume that the size of the test sample could not be that large. Just how many civilized people are there that even want to breed with Aborignes?
129 posted on 10/11/2002 11:55:53 PM PDT by montanus
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To: AntiGuv
Looking through the human fossil record of the past few thousand years provides ample intermediary evidence of steadily increasing heights.

Total nonsense. We still have pygmies and bantus and everything in between. Height has more to do with nutrition than anything else. Further, height has nothing to do with species as the above examples show. This is the problem with evolutionists - first they only select what they like, secondly they ascribe everything to evolution when there are much better and scientifically proven explanations for what they say. For example all species are taller in the tropics than in arctic areas. Has nothing to do with evolution, has to do with adaptation to the environment.

131 posted on 10/11/2002 11:59:50 PM PDT by gore3000
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