Different in degree or kind (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 07, 2013, 14:36 (4004 days ago) @ David Turell


> David: We are somewhere. How many degrees of difference do you need before 'man is an animal like no other' to then interpret as a difference in kind? Since we know the vast degrees of difference, I think your position is untenable.-Here is another degree of difference. In my new book I discuss a monkey over 20 million years ago that started to change its lumbar spine region on the way to true upright bipedalism. We didn't descend from chimps. We all split apart and took our own roads. This from an article discussing the new Denisovan DNA findings I presented a few days ago:-"'Living apes—chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans—have long and independent evolutionary histories of their own, and their modern anatomies should not be assumed to represent the ancestral condition for our human lineage," study coauthor Sergio Almécija told the Agence France-Presse (AFP). "To understand the origins of human bipedalism, scientists should stop assuming a 'chimpanzee starting point,'" he added."-http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38554/title/Bipedal-Beginnings/