[blam]

Thanks to SunkenCiv for the article.

[blam]

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[xcamel]

So... pygmys don’t count?

[afraidfortherepublic]

< < Sigh! > > Now, you are really confusing me!

[rickdylan]

For the estimated 150,000-200,000 years that our species has trod the globe, its members have made billions of babies and none have broken the Homo sapiens mould.

Congratulations, you've almost figured out why evolution is just another form of junk science. The whole thing is driven by information and the only information there is in humans is that of humans. The information to have a kid with horns and poison fangs simply isn't there.

[jack_napier]

I want to say that at some point they found some Aboriginal group that had a different number of autosomes normally.

[onedoug]

Genes.

[Coyoteman]

Very interesting. The author does a pretty good job of explaining those latest findings. Thanks for the post!

[rickdylan]

So new parents should not expect their babies to be anything other than Homo sapiens. And with about 200,000 more births than deaths each day around the world, there is a diminishing likelihood that any group of Homo sapiens will become sufficiently isolated to kick-start a new breed.

Sounds like making excuses and, as excuses go, that one's about as lame as is possible. Punctuated equlibria has its own set of problems which is worse if anything than the pure Darwinism it was meant to replace. If nothing else, as has been noted, you need a certain level of population before you'd ever see a "beneficial mutation", assuming such a thing were ever to happen, and the tiny "peripheral" groups which Gould and others postulate would not supply them.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SaintDismas]

Whew, I was worried

[Fred Nerks]

http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho39.htm

Are retrogenes changing Darwin’s Natural Selection Paradigm?
Retrogenes: genes that don’t behave - Reverse transcription: who needs it?
a review by Gert Korthof
21 Feb 1999 (updated: 29 Feb 2004 )

[Thumper1960]

Now we know who bred with the offspring of Adam and Eve.