Oldest known human ancestor rewrites evolution theories

YukonJack

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"I don’t know, Tonington. Dinosaurs were smart enough not to fight among themselves (also not to turn the whole earth into a garbage dump), perhaps that is why they survived that long."

They were also smart enough to develop TV, radio, telephone, printing, reading, schools, computers, books, medicine (admittedly, not yet perfect) and so on and so forth. RIGHT???

The argument, in quotes, above is a stillborn and idiotic nonsense of a blind and deaf liberal.
 

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I don’t know, Tonington. Dinosaurs were smart enough not to fight among themselves (also not to turn the whole earth into a garbage dump), perhaps that is why they survived that long. Humans aren’t that smart, we fight and kill each other.
Dinos never killed each other? They were ALL herbivores? wow Science sure has been wrong about that.
 

Ron in Regina

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Dinos never killed each other? They were ALL herbivores? wow Science sure has been wrong about that.


 

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I don’t know, Tonington. Dinosaurs were smart enough not to fight among themselves (also not to turn the whole earth into a garbage dump), perhaps that is why they survived that long. Humans aren’t that smart, we fight and kill each other.

1. Survivng for 160 million years has very little to do with the computing power of an organisms nervous system, if it even has one. It is the fitness of that organism, how it interacts with it's environment that really matters. That could be due to a sophisticated brain, or something else completely unrelated.
2. Comparing Dinosaur's to humans is like comparing Exopterygota to the polar bear. Thousands of species, in a very long and diverse lineage of fossil phylogenies compared to a single species. That is a nonsensical comparison to make in an evolutionary thread.
3. They survived long because they were well adapted to the environment. They would not do very well today, where mammals dominate food webs.
 

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1. Survivng for 160 million years has very little to do with the computing power of an organisms nervous system, if it even has one. It is the fitness of that organism, how it interacts with it's environment that really matters. That could be due to a sophisticated brain, or something else completely unrelated.
2. Comparing Dinosaur's to humans is like comparing Exopterygota to the polar bear. Thousands of species, in a very long and diverse lineage of fossil phylogenies compared to a single species. That is a nonsensical comparison to make in an evolutionary thread.
3. They survived long because they were well adapted to the environment. They would not do very well today, where mammals dominate food webs.
Trees managed to survive for lots longer than a few million years and they don't fight amongst themselves either. :D They must be absolutely brilliant. :D
 
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SirJosephPorter

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1. Survivng for 160 million years has very little to do with the computing power of an organisms nervous system, if it even has one. It is the fitness of that organism, how it interacts with it's environment that really matters. That could be due to a sophisticated brain, or something else completely unrelated.
2. Comparing Dinosaur's to humans is like comparing Exopterygota to the polar bear. Thousands of species, in a very long and diverse lineage of fossil phylogenies compared to a single species. That is a nonsensical comparison to make in an evolutionary thread.
3. They survived long because they were well adapted to the environment. They would not do very well today, where mammals dominate food webs.

It was a light hearted comment, Tonington. I didn’t think you would take it seriously. I do appreciate the effort you took in answering it though.
 

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It was a light hearted comment, Tonington. I didn’t think you would take it seriously. I do appreciate the effort you took in answering it though.

Oh... my mistake I guess. I don't really find the fact that humans kill other humans, or that we pollute indiscriminately to be lighthearted topics...

:-?