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Authored by: bprice on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 02:05 AM EDT |
The physical evidence for this is convincing.
It may be
convincing to the author, but not to everybody.
There is a massive takedown
of this conjecture at Pharyngula.
Pharyn
gula is a rough-and-tumble venue, where the language may not be suitable for the
faint of heart. It is akin to the style used in private, among scientists, but
not usually in public. Neither Professor Myers nor the commenters hold back on
their scorn for pseudo-science. Perhaps the mildest comment on the cited paper
is Myers': "Besides, this new idea is hilarious."
The author of the
cited paper is identified as one who holds the contrafactual belief that
evolution is driven by conjectural hybridization between species rather than by
the numerous mechanisms that have been actually observed. --- --Bill.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 06:33 AM EDT |
Just try to imagine the mechanics of the situation. First
the male boar or
pig has to climb the tree where the female
chimpanzee fled upon first sighting
the lecherous boar. It
only gets more ridiculous from there on...
You
don't think she cooperated willingly, I hope. I
suppose there is always someone
who will say she led him on.
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- Me, Gringo - not logged on n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 06:35 AM EDT
- Hybridization, and Backcrossing, and Macroevolution! Oh, my! - Authored by: Nick_UK on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 06:54 AM EDT
- Well, under the right circumstances, fruit can (and does) ferment naturally . . . - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 08:43 AM EDT
- Creative theories (sic) - Authored by: artp on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 04:45 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 11:39 AM EDT |
Or is Intelligent Design?
Or Low Temperature Fusion?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton
Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla (they called it Troglodytes
gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.
The name was derived from Greek
Γόριλλαι (Gorillai), meaning
"tribe of hairy women", described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor (circa
480 BC) to the area that later became Sierra Leone.
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