Evolution: a different view; Schwartz (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, August 29, 2015, 08:14 (3374 days ago) @ David Turell

Schwartz "'If we want to be objective, we shall almost certainly have to scrap the iconic list of (genus and species) names in which hominid fossil specimens have historically been trapped and start from the beginning," he says."
 
dhw: Sorry, but how can you start from the beginning when you don't know the beginning? -DAVID: Well, some ape-like animal started the human line. We seem to recognize those. He isn't referring to start of life.-Nor was I. Tony thinks humans were separately created, which is the only way you can talk of a beginning. In the context of evolution and the hominid fossils, you can't "start at the beginning" if you don't know what constitutes the borderline between ape and human! Nor can you start at the beginning unless you know there are no more fossils to be found.