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Perdition
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Message 80 of 122 (466728)
05-16-2008 5:31 PM
Reply to: Message 78 by IamJoseph
05-16-2008 5:19 PM


Any change is a mutation, whether it succeeds or not.
Humans are not the highest species, they are merely the species we belong to.
All current life forms could be considered the "final" lifeform from our perspective. But even that is incorrect, because were you to look at the Earth in a few million years, and the species living will be completely different, including humans.

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Message 86 of 122 (466744)
05-16-2008 6:35 PM
Reply to: Message 83 by IamJoseph
05-16-2008 5:47 PM


Speech Emergence
How do you knwo when speech emerged? Speech would come long before written language.
Mechanically, the hyoid bone in your throat is the bone that gives us the ability to speak. This bone is present in many mammals, including all the great apes, but in humans it is lower in the throat, giving us more room for more tongue movement. This bone has been found in much the same place in the skeletons of neanderthals, making it highly likely that they had some form of speech, and meaning that the ability to speak is far older than a mere 6,000 years.

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Message 95 of 122 (467132)
05-19-2008 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 94 by Yrreg
05-19-2008 5:51 PM


Re: Jargon, the need to be straight with terms
Change is the transformation of anything even a process so that it is different from what it was before the change, for example, a fish becoming a bird after change
The example you state, a fish becoming a bird, is quite definitely a "change," however I could see that example leading to a potential conflict further down.

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