Re: Fossils challenge theory

On Aug 8, 6:50 pm, "Sheldon" <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would appreciate someone taking the time to address this article:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/aug/08/080809992....

Standard evolutionary expectations. The linear model (the great chain
of being) went out so long ago that it might not have made it into the
20th century. The depiction that they usually show in museums can be
considered to be a single lineage. It is missing all the branching
that went on along the way. Just think of how many Australophithcine
species that have been found. We likely only descend from one of
them. Habalines are just more modified members of that group. Heck,
Louis Leakey was one of the main scientists in the 1960's that
determined that there were multiple hominids coexisting around 1.8 to
2 million years ago even if they didn't have the precise dating that
we have today. Public perception may be one thing, but the scientists
involved have had different expectations. I took physical
anthropology in 1976 and branching was standard expectation at that
time. It is why we have trouble determining if a certain fossil
species really is an ancestor. Is 30 years long enough to become
standard expectation? Anyone just has to consider life today. Just
look at the big cats. There is no question that they had a common
ancestor. Species like lions and tigers can still interbreed. There
are multiple species of big cats. If evolution was linear there would
only be one. No one expects the past to be any different than what we
observe today in this regard.

Ron Okimoto

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