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To: null and void
How could we not evolve? The slower runners got eaten, the faster runners got to be parents.

Fine, that is micro-evolution, the survival of the fittest within the given parameters of the species.

So how did we develop an Achilles Tendon if ape chromosomes don't produce it?

16 posted on 09/11/2007 8:18:58 AM PDT by Ancesthntr
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Those aren't humans.

17 posted on 09/11/2007 8:20:47 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Ancesthntr
Apes and our presumed common ancestor have s similar tendon. (Even cats and dogs have a tendon in the same location).

Ours is just longer and ‘springier’.

If a critter spends most of its time in the trees running isn’t much needed. Therefore apes and monkeys don’t need to be spring loaded.

It becomes important on open savannas. Our ancestors needed to outrun predators and chase down prey. They needed the energy recovery/efficiency that a springy tendon provided. The ones that had that edge were more likely to live long enough to reproduce.

19 posted on 09/11/2007 8:46:12 AM PDT by null and void (I have several guns....every sane person should have at least one. ~ Fawn)
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