>Susan Brassfield wrote:
>
>>Australopithecus afarensis has a very apelike head but very humanlike hips
>>and knee joints. It is clearly transitional between humans and an apelike
>>ancestor.
Cliff Lundberg:
>When are people going to realize that an intermediate form is not
>necessarily a transitional form? There were various hominid species,
>and it is extremely unlikely that each one evolved from another. It's
>the same old error of trying to force known forms into evolutionary
>sequences.
My answer to this is a pithy "so what?" The hominid family tree was clearly
once much bushier than it is now. It really isn't necessary for A.
afarensis to be directly ancestral to homo sapiens. It is clearly *between*
and that is what must be concealed to preserve the fiction that there are
no transitionals.
Susan
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of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
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