... Actually it has been argued since before Darwin, ever since it was recognised that evolutionary change does exist and attempts were made to define species...
... Of course there are problems with such a definition such as how do we judge what constitutes common evolutionary history, how much variation within a ...
Hi, I am pleased to announce that a review of the book "The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750", edited by Henry Millon, has been...
Is this anything like the "staggering like a drunk through catastrophes" theory? (I'm not really joking, William Calvin lays out a pretty good case for it.) In...
... The subject of this thread IMO is taxonomy, not anthropology. Psychology, etc. does not fossilize, and so is useless in distinguishing between the N's and...
Why not present both ends of the spectrum as was discussed yesterday. Only a suggestion, but if that's the best we can come up with, it might work. I also...
Yes, or one could simply read the paper that Mikey posted to the files section yesterday. I haven't had a chance to study it in detail but upon first skim I...
... made to ... evolutionary ... seem to ... to Darwin. Yes, of course. ... Excellent article. I did skim it but will study it later today. I also referred...
... There can never be one 'right' definition of species. We are trying to create an arbitary (albeit the least arbitary taxonomic category) human category out...
... know that ... one a ... definition, while ... eliminated ... Indigenous ... perfectly ... Indigenous Australians are archaic in lifeways when compared to...
That sounds a lot like founder effect. And no joke about it. You might also phrase it "staggering like the last drunk standing through catastrophes". That...
I don't think it's really the definition of "species" that needs to be agreed to first. As several commentators have tried to explain, it's the USE your...
It seems that all the definitions of "species" have some problems. A clever definition I read was, "If an animal sees another animal as a possible mate, they...
Wilmsen, E. N. and Denbow, J. R. 1990. Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision. Current Anthropology 31, 489-524. ...
... Hardly new. See Bednarik, 'Beads & the Origin of Symbolism'; easy to find on the web. My only input here is incredulity at the thought there's anyone...
You have made several excellent points, Steve. Chaucerian English in most instances would not be understood by modern man yet it still retains the English...
Don, I think Steve has finally put us on the right track. I think my problem with your dilemna was compounded first by not realizing you were a linguist until...
... it ... I think it's just another nail in the coffin of what Mike Brass calls the "magic poof" and I call the "brain mutation that only happened to 'modern'...
Richard and all: The real problem(or so it seems to me)is that evolution itself is a complicated, messy business. And because it is, it can be hard to define...
Mike and all: It is sometimes absolutely amazing to me how often some workers tend to think of Neandertals as one vast, undifferentiated mass through space...
... create an arbitary (albeit the least arbitary taxonomic category) human category out of a grey continuum. That's because, as I've often said, evolution...
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