[muawiyah]

Yup ~ plenty of uncertainties ~ mainly the total absence of proto-corn. Presumably there were such plants, but alas, they vanished ~ due to what? The classical evolutionary position would be that they "failed to adapt".

Yet, corn, as we know it, has not only "adapted" it has virtually abandoned its reproductive life to a different species, mankind!

Point I was making was that there are highly successful species whose forebear species were shortlived, and who have all disappeared. At the same time there are other species that don't seem to change over tens, or even hundreds of millions of years.

[orionblamblam]

> Point I was making was that there are highly successful species whose forebear species were shortlived, and who have all disappeared. At the same time there are other species that don't seem to change over tens, or even hundreds of millions of years.

And this is surprising? Sometimes things just work... and sometimes they don't. The cockroach and the shark ahve been arouind for hundreds of millions of years (in both cases, having evolved substnatially ove rthat time, despitr claims that they are unchanged) becaus ethey are not only well adapted to their niche, their niche is sufficietly broad that environmental changes don;t mess with these critters much. other animals were evolved well to fit some fairly specific and, in the end, doomed niche. Such is life.

[From many - one.]

You do not seem to have read the link.