Evolution: a different view; Schwartz (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 29, 2015, 14:12 (3373 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: 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.-I agree with your points, but I think you are being too strict about the word 'beginning'. It also refers to the 'beginning of an analysis'. There is a hodgepodge of ancient fossils. When we note that humans today range from dwarfs to pituitary giants, future paleontologists, if they didn't read our history, would have a field day of classifications. All Schwartz is noting is that we may be missing simple variation and over-splitting groups.