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Old 08-26-2011, 02:43 PM
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An interesting way to explain evolution

http://www.wimp.com/demonstrateevolution/
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Old 08-26-2011, 04:05 PM
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Only 250,000 generations ago we were chimps. Now we're mostly chumps.
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Old 08-26-2011, 04:20 PM
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No, I believe the correct way to say it is that 250,000 generations ago we and chimps had a common ancestor.
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Old 08-26-2011, 04:54 PM
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Ingeneous way of visualizing evolution. I'd prefer to trace myself back to Bonobos.
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Old 08-26-2011, 10:36 PM
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Ingeneous way of visualizing evolution. I'd prefer to trace myself back to Bonobos.
Those horney apes! They'd rather make love than war!
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Old 08-28-2011, 11:58 AM
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No, I believe the correct way to say it is that 250,000 generations ago we and chimps had a common ancestor.
I do not believe that to be correct Tom. Today we have a common ancestor; 250K generations ago we were indistinguishable from each other, meaning we were each other. IE we were chimps and chimps were us, but of course we were neither chimp nor human. At that time one of us went to the other side of the mountain so to speak according to this video and what most evolutionary scientists believe.
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Old 08-28-2011, 01:02 PM
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Another way to look at this, kinda from the physical, natural world view; forgotten underlying principles waiting to bite back: What goes up must come down. Thank you, very much.
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I get a kick out of people who consider it an insult to suggest that we evolved from chimps or anything like chimps.
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