[JimSEA]

An article that makes a logical follow on to the Cambrian Explosion posts from yesterday.

[wally_bert]

Wasn’t Ford Prefect responsible for what would become the giraffe?

[BroJoeK]

JimSEA: "An article that makes a logical follow on to the Cambrian Explosion posts from yesterday."

Thanks, hugely appreciated!

[Religion and Politics]

hmm. I am going to go a different way on this one, but it is a follow on to the thought presented in the other thread about Wallace.

To what end does the human capability to identify and classify the species of Giraffes according to their DNA serve to preserve the survival of humans? Was the capability arrived at by innumerable gradual genetic successions handed down to offspring? Why would humans work towards preserving species that otherwise would go extinct due to current environmental pressures?

Note, I am not posing a question about the value of identifying and preserving. I am posing a question about how that ability arose through the process attributed to evolution for all life that we observe on Earth. So, this is the "problem" with natural selection that Wallace discussed, and which he reserved for humans alone. He thought that the difference between humans and the next lowest animal was too great to be explained by natural selection alone.