To: Celtjew Libertarian
Because not all apes evolved.Well, not quite. Our primate ancestors all evolved, just into different things. Some evolved into humans, others into chimps, bonobos and gorillas. It is wrong to say that a population hasn't evolved -- all are continuously evolving -- just as its wrong to say that apes are any less evolved than we are, because evolution doesn't have a direction, and the real test is whether an organism is fit in the context of its environment.
121 posted on
12/21/2005 7:17:02 AM PST by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
Yeah, I know... I figured I keep the answer basic, though.
126 posted on
12/21/2005 7:18:33 AM PST by
Celtjew Libertarian
(Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
To: Alter Kaker
"...It is wrong to say that a population hasn't evolved -- all are continuously evolving --..."
"Punctuated evolution" is a theory that lines do have extended periods with very little evolution. I am sort of turned off but this grand theory because I always thought that its claims were obvious and the proponents were self aggrandizing.
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