explaining common ancestry

since it seems that there is some misunderstanding as to how common ancestors are defined and how they "share traits of their progeny" and so forth, perhaps we should have some clarifying discussion.bio i spose.This message has been edited by brennakimi, 12-12-2005 01:56 PMFrom Carico in Message 85: now, i'm sure carico isn't the only one with this misunderstanding. so, one: where do common ancestors come from? two: how did they "get" human traits. three: any other thoughts?i'd like to see comments from evo people as well as more questions from creos. but can we please keep it an honest question and answer session and not a "but god said 111!!!oneonewtfbbq". if you want to understand evolution's position more, great. if you just want to berate our heresy, save your fingers.This message has been edited by brennakimi, 12-12-2005 02:18 PMThis message has been edited by Admin, 12-12-2005 02:59 PM

better?

it's nice to get people who are willing to honestly recieve information. hopefully someone will jump on this for you. any info i could give would be elementary at best. it's been a few years since i was a bio major and i'm sure much has changed since then.

what better way to describe the evolution of great apes other than a little trip through spidey's family tree, fuzzy bitch.

you know what i'm starting to wonder... have you tried it? cause i don't think anyone has.

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“I asked for the vegetarian.""Ah, yes, the vegetarian, yes! There we go, Mr. Hitler. There we go... Like a bit of wine? Thank you very much...you Nazi shithead!"

he seems to be having a lot of trouble with chimps and humans.watch his head explode.
this is a tarsier. he's a primate.
two eyes. a nose with two nostrils. a mouth with different kinds of teeth including canines and incisors. ears on the sides of his head, not the top. opposable thumbs. a spine. elbows that bend in. knees that bend back. a tail bone (very scant tail though). hair. mammary glands. damn cute, too.
this is a ring-tailed lemur. ever watch zoobomafoo? he's a primate too.these are both primitive primates. they're most likely the type of critters larger primates developped from. how do we decide this? we look at similar characteristics and genes and decide that more similar things branched away from the common ancestor later than less similar things. ever see a phylogenetic tree? here's the one for primates This message has been edited by brennakimi, 12-14-2005 12:30 AMThis message has been edited by Admin, 12-14-2005 02:09 PM

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“I asked for the vegetarian.""Ah, yes, the vegetarian, yes! There we go, Mr. Hitler. There we go... Like a bit of wine? Thank you very much...you Nazi shithead!"

that i did not know. see? they're closer to us than even i thought.

mud fence, cunt face. tomato tomahto.

well. why don't we start a thread about changes in modern humans since the beginning of recorded history. it'll be hard, but i think we can manage it.