Re: What did the first talking monkey's mom look like?

On Nov 21, 5:12 pm, Reddfrogg <reddfr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 21, 2:17 am, backspace <stephan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 21, 3:22 am, John Harshman <jharsh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

backspace wrote:
What did the first talking monkey's mom look like?
This is your usual fallacy. It's been explained to you many times, and
yet you never seem to read or understand the explanations. Still, I'll
try again.
There is no such thing as the first talking monkey. Evolution is a
gradual process, and the evolution of speech is no exception.

Evolution or natural selection?

Evolution is the process.  Natural selection is part of the mechanism
of that process.

Do you mean the John burroughs version of NS:
[[JohnBurroughs]] in his book The Last Harvest(1922) interpreted
Darwin as: "....Try to think of that wonderful organ, the eye, with
all its marvelous powers and adaptations, as the result of what we
call chance or Natural Selection. Well may Darwin have said that the
eye made him shudder when he tried to account for it by Natural
Selection. Why, its adaptations in one respect alone, minor though
they be, are enough to stagger any number of selectionists...

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