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6 Responses to “Evolution”

1. deanscamaro Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

   I don’t see in the cycle where this generation has taken us back to the beginning. Something is missing from the cycle.

2. gloppie Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   I wonder what it would look like in French….

3. Greg0658 Says:
   March 12th, 2009 at 9:35 am

   where is the monkey line leading to the humans … with the flying saucer impregnating the Neanderthals with intellect and space voyage instinct

   a chicken .. wheres the egg ?

4. Avl Dao Says:
   March 14th, 2009 at 9:56 pm

   Lost in most discussions of terran evolton are the assorted asteroid hits that pretty much wiped the slate clean 3 (?) times. So there’s actually not a good linear progression from the original set of tiny single-cell ocean beasties to post-asteroid plants and animal life to dinosaurs to post-asteroid mammals to primates.

   Had not those asteroids re-set stuff practically to zero (never quite to zero) multiple times, who knows what would have evolved from the original set of micro-organisms.

5. Dow Says:
   March 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

   Avl Dao…take a closer look at the graphic.

6. jbruso Says:
   March 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

   Pretty picture, but I have a hard time reconciling it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity; Sorta like a pretty picture of how the financial system ought to work in theory, but then in practice, whoa, we discover systemic risk and black swans… so we reach the conclusion we need to design a better system.