Proteins, Apes & Us (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, April 06, 2012, 16:18 (4615 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: First were ancient ape-like creatures. All of us primates came from apeness. Long arms, stooped knuckle-dragging, tiny-brained. The only logical evolution from four-legged to upright. Split into three lines, hominin, gorilla, and chimp, after monkeys split off. Hominin kept changing, gorilla and chimpness did not. Hominin went to hominid to Homo.
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> So according to this, Darwin was right (common descent, four-legged to upright) and Filler is wrong (humans evolved into apes, upright to four-legged). Now I'm even more puzzled by Filler's reasoning and yours.-re-read my response. Don't be obtuse. Monkeys first, then a vertebae change to indicate a hominin line, from which a gorilla line and a chimp line branched off. Of course Darwin was correct. Filler's discovery supports this.