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> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "qntmpkt" <qntmpkt@> wrote:
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> From NewScientist, May, 2006, p. 5 "A Messy Divorce, Our distant
> ancestors' behaviour can teach us a thing or two".
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> this new glimpse of our history serves as a lesson in how fuzzy the
> boundaries of a species can be, and in how evolution bumbles along
> without any grand plan."
>
> The article goes on to say that the apparent separation between
> species is often messier than simply being unable to interbreed;
> and also that entire family trees are messy.
>
> Regarding the divergence of amps and humans, the article says, "At
> times it would have been hard to decide if there was one species or
> two: evolution just selected what worked."
It's easy to forget that the evolutionary "tree" we see
so neatly mapped out in taxonomic charts is a pattern we
have imposed on nature, not an organizational structure
that is somehow inherent in nature.
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