Re: Vocabulary Question
- From: John Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:40:38 +1000
The Cdesign Proponentist wrote:
Is there a word to describe the specific sort of evolution where noThe term is anagenesis, and the species that are "formed" this way are
branching has occurred? I'm having a difficult time explaining to
someone why H. erectus can be the ancestor of H. sapiens, with no
branching in between, and how the both can therefore be considered of
the same species in a sense, but that this in no way means that we are
the same.
referred to as chronospecies. However, nobody these days thinks that
speciation occurs without cladogenesis (splitting).
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos,
puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
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