Totally agree, we're all preaching to the choir on this one! But just in case anyone is ever confronted with a (only) slightly more sophisticated argument that there IS a missing link between us and the common ancestor, Dawkins does a nice job with this in his 'Greatest Show on Earth'. It was a clever analogy he uses. viz, as we development from birth to death we change ever so slightly such that we don't see week to week or month to month changes. Yet we classify human development into prenatal, neonate, infant, toddler .... stages, each with a static 'picture'. If we just look at the static pictures we see jumps, not continuity. Our fossil record resembles these pictures, so we see Homo habilis here and Homo erectus there, and with every new discovery some people will say great, but where is the missing link between any two of these fossils? Point is, there are many existing intermediate steps already in museums, we just can't capture the gradual continuities any more than we can in our mind's eye see a human morph from toddler to childhood.
========================== John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher D. Green" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 11:50:00 AM Subject: Re: [tips] Evolutionary question The antecedent of the conditional is false. Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans and modern monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. Modern monkeys and modern humans continue to evolve, each along their own evolutionary paths. (I can't believe I actually have to say such a thing.) Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== michael sylvester wrote: Christine O'Donnell,the Tea party republican senatorial candidate for Delaware, has questioned human evolutionary theory. "if we are descended from monkeys,why ain't monkeys still evolving?",she asked. Maybe our Darwin wannabees on Tips can provide an answer. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=5175 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-5175-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&n=T&l=tips&o=5183 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-5183-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5186 or send a blank email to leave-5186-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
