Hi Rob, From your words: Yes, they needed to know where to find drinking-water while they were active on the savanna and they needed to learn how to avoid...
... Please will one of you explain how definition of a genus differs from an agreed but arbitrary choice of a branching point on a phylogenetic tree?...
Ken Moore
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070930/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologyneanderthals_070930171900;_ylt=AuZiO8AtGWRseoRkUqnS9TAE1vAI 40ka neandertals in western Siberia...
... It's a definition: before the split we have the HP common branch, after the split we have the H & the P branch. Simple, no? But of course H immediately ...
Hi Rob, Do you think that long head hair, abundant SC fat, reduced body hair and infant knee crawling were naturally selected in Homo on the Ethiopian...
Did apes evolve from humans? Sudden abrupt changes in which entirely new types of organisms come into existence almost instantaneously do not fit the model of...
Some people think they are original, but they are just repeating bad ideas of other scientists. "Man do not evolve from apes, but apes evolve from man" is...
http://www.aquaticape.org/verhaegen.html I had a short look at this. I don't know what biased hair-splitter (someone who believes he's producing *Science*: he...
... Well, in several instances Westenhöfer was right here, I wouldn't call it bad ideas (wrong perhaps, but not bad): gr.apes seem to be derived in many ...
... As they say... Ken. "King Philip cried out for good soup!" Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species Genus - Homo > Species - Sapiens ...
... Its a murky ( messy ) definition, Marc. ... Fossils are physical evidence, the rest is interpretation. ... What's wrong with... Genus > Species ?...
...Because a theory is a complex of statements, it usually does not stand or fall on the basis of a single critical test (as simple hypotheses often do)....
... To the contrary: very clear & simple: HP = H + P. ... To the contrary: DNA is physical evidence. Fossils are fragmentary parts without soft tissues of...
Op 01-10-2007 22:07, in artikel 2sk2g3t36r04eed3i953t856mu1pom1b51@..., ... Penguins standing on 2 legs + tail. ... Yes, of course. The problem here is:...
The problem with theories trying to make apes developing from hominids are evident: there are a lot of hominids features not present in apes (hairlessness,...
Marc, see please my commentary to DDedens post below. RBender ... call it ... in many ... hairs, ... lengthening of ... come ... 288 ... Aaron ... Mayr - ... ...
Op 01-10-2007 22:22, in artikel nol2g3p9s2utmq3s90riuluues89c6mjds@..., ... Indeed. ... 1 independent event is well possible, eg, it's well possible that...
... Trying?? P & G *are* hominids. Hominid=HPG. Pongid=Po. ... Not present in apes?? eg, Afr.apes are born naked & with humanlike flat feet, and KWing is...
A New Model for the Origin of Bipedality Hum.Evol.21:241-250 EJ Bowers 2007 Scholars have long thought that bipedality evolved gradually in response to the...
... Nice long tail to counterbalance, like a kangaroo or T rex. It's funny how the savannaphiles reacted to the air sac info. Insults and ignorance, no...