tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post1773510380640152303..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Ardi: Looking at the Latest Missing LinkDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-73164313528159908062009-11-11T00:55:21.369-05:002009-11-11T00:55:21.369-05:00Hey, just stumbled across your blog in my cyber wa...Hey, just stumbled across your blog in my cyber wanderings, and wanted to say thanks for the excellent post! The idea that "it may have been the chimps and gorillas who developed adaptations for arboreal life, and in the process shifted to walking on all fours and putting weight on the knuckles of their hands -- rather than these being features that our ancestors shed" was quite moving. Perhaps they'll be the species to survive the next million years, and our human evolutionary "progress" is not quite so progressive after all?<br />Cheers.sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-26764202481400103842009-10-13T11:44:08.759-04:002009-10-13T11:44:08.759-04:00I'm a new reader, just found you today. I ver...I'm a new reader, just found you today. I very much appreciate the explanation of Ardi's import: concise and understandable for us non-science, humanities types. I especially appreciate the diagram on the actual versus theoretical line of descent. Even though it is quite incomplete, it's still very impressive what scientists have been able to pull together from the fossil evidence. Thanks for the lesson!Bob Huntnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-33126932543704776822009-10-09T13:46:40.305-04:002009-10-09T13:46:40.305-04:00Chad,
John Hawks is a really sound guy, so you...Chad,<br /><br />John Hawks is a really sound guy, so you're probably on good ground there. Just to toot my own horn, I touched on the speciation question briefly a couple years ago here:<br /><br />http://darwincatholic.blogspot.com/2005/10/evolution-speciation-and-nominalism.htmlDarwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-41920047047251823382009-10-09T12:15:43.740-04:002009-10-09T12:15:43.740-04:00To Chad:
If you want to go really in depth, the b...To Chad: <br />If you want to go really in depth, the book I used at school is out in a second edition. It's called Reconstructing Human Origins (Glenn Conroy). It's pricey but you may be able to get it at the library or used.Rebekkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536021238594385545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-54682765612441536182009-10-09T12:04:09.560-04:002009-10-09T12:04:09.560-04:00I think this gets at what I'm looking for.I think <a href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/phylogeny/species_concepts.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> gets at what I'm looking for.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534825533948115912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-84719928854654066202009-10-09T11:48:30.292-04:002009-10-09T11:48:30.292-04:00Thanks for this post! Still recovering from a YEC...Thanks for this post! Still recovering from a YEC background and even the most basic explanations are extremely helpful for me.<br /><br />A question I have: How do paleontologists determine that fossils are different species (or that they could not interbreed, if that's the same thing)? I'm gonna see what I can find via googlin, but if you have any good pages for basics like this, I'd be interested in reading. Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534825533948115912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-83012079081124397862009-10-09T04:05:35.354-04:002009-10-09T04:05:35.354-04:00I just got all nostalgic about the classes I took ...I just got all nostalgic about the classes I took in college. I had sort of forgotten how terribly exciting it was. Biological anthropology is just SO COOL. <br /><br />Thanks for the update!Rebekkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536021238594385545noreply@blogger.com