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Originally Posted by Beau Perkins  This is why I brought up the Tree Of Life Project. It is ued to back up these claims and it is filled with far reaching ideas. |
Perhaps it seems far-reaching to you, but if working biologists are doing it, I doubt they would agree.
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I may have told this story once before but I was at Yale Peabody Museum with my daughter. They had an exhibit this summer on The Tree Of Life. During a quiz thing for kids it gave three animals and a plant and asked which one is closer related to a house cat. My daughter picked a squirl, it was the most obvious choice.
They said the plant was the best answer. When I asked why I got some insane technical answer that answered nothing for me.
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I'd be interested in hearing their answer, too, because I've never seen a taxonomy that placed a cat closer to a plant than a squirrel. On the other hand, until paleontologists made some very key discoveries we had no idea that dinosaurs are more closely related to birds than they are to other modern life forms -- and that dinosaurs probably ran in herds like birds today run in flocks.
It's still taxonomy, Beau, which as I said earlier is pretty arbitrary. Don't confuse taxonomy with evolution - taxonomies can change drastically but it doesn't change the fact that evolution happens.
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mple you give here, seems like research wsith a predetermine conclusion. Science is working backwards. What type of genetic research can he do to prove we all derived from single cell organisms. I am going to Google and read more, I am curious.
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Please do, because I only stumbled on that article looking for examples to post here. I'm sure if one could decipher the June 18 issue of
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he'd offer the answers to your question.
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On this topic. How back can we prove with hard evidence? What is the most primitive fossil we can trace back to the evolution of man with no question what so ever?
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Substitute "evolution of life", since
the earliest fossils we have found which we can trace directly to
homo sapiens are about 5 to 8 million years old. But that ignores our relationship with the rest of life on this planet, which existed for over 4 billion years before the first pre-human simians ran the savannahs of Africa:
EARTH'S EARLIEST FOSSILS:SOLUTION TO DARWIN'S DILEMMA Quote:
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For more than 100 years, the missing Precambrian history of life stood out as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in natural science. In recent decades, however, life's early history has finally begun to be unearthed as the documented fossil record has been extended to some 3,500 million years ago, an age more than three-quarters that of the planet itself. As this new science has matured, hundreds of ancient fossiliferous units have been discovered and the rules for accepting ancient microfossil-like objects as bona fide have come to be well established -- namely, that such objects be demonstrably biogenic, and indigenous to and syngenetic with the formation of rocks of known provenance and well-defined Precambrian age.
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