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Gene May Be Key To Evolution Of Larger Human Brain [Evolution]
ScienceDaily Magazine ^
| 13 January 2004
| Staff
Posted on 01/13/2004 10:50:50 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: MEGoody
why are there still apes? Shouldn't they have ceased to exist based on these criteria?
unfortunately many apes are endangered. The Orangutang may be extinct within 50 years or less. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2000/12/122800orangutans.html
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01/13/2004 2:45:24 PM PST
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AdmSmith
To: AdmSmith
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01/13/2004 3:05:02 PM PST
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AdmSmith
To: MEGoody
If 'natural selection' means death by incompetence or other inability to survive and reproduce, why are there still apes? They occupy different niches. The apes you are thinking of (gorillas, chimps) live in heavily forested areas. Humans evolved in the grasslands. Presumably the apes that coinhabited the savannahs of Africa with man's ancestors millions of years ago DID die out since they were not as successful.
To: PatrickHenry
bttfl
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01/13/2004 3:38:33 PM PST
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Cacique
Some threads catch fire, some don't. That's how it goes. Final bump.
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01/14/2004 10:59:59 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Everything good that I have done, I have done at the command of my voices.)
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