Nesslig20 said:Tiktaalik is my personal favorite, however my favorite transitional lineage is dinosaurs to birds. What is your favorite?
he_who_is_nobody said:What are your thoughts on punctuated equilibrium?
he_who_is_nobody said:What are your thoughts on epigenetics?
Rhed said:What is your opinion(s) for the weakest and strongest arguments for The Theory of Evolution?
thenexttodie said:What is the best evidence for Darwinian evolution?
Rhed said:What is your opinion(s) for the weakest and strongest arguments for The Theory of Evolution?
thenexttodie said:What is the best evidence for Darwinian evolution?
Rumraket said:When you guys ask this question, what are you asking really? Do you mean, the best argument for the common descent of all known life? Or the best argument for the claim that evolution happens (organisms do in fact evolve)? Or the best argument for the claim that evolution happens in some particular way? There are several ways to understand your questions.
thenexttodie said:Rumraket said:When you guys ask this question, what are you asking really? Do you mean, the best argument for the common descent of all known life? Or the best argument for the claim that evolution happens (organisms do in fact evolve)? Or the best argument for the claim that evolution happens in some particular way? There are several ways to understand your questions.
Morphology then?
Steelmage listed it as the best evidence for Darwinian evolution and evolutionary developmental biology. So it must be pretty solid..
Rhed said:What is your opinion(s) for the weakest and strongest arguments for The Theory of Evolution?
Rumraket said:When you guys ask this question, what are you asking really? Do you mean, the best argument for the common descent of all known life? Or the best argument for the claim that evolution happens (organisms do in fact evolve)? Or the best argument for the claim that evolution happens in some particular way? There are several ways to understand your questions.
Rhed said:What is your opinion(s) for the weakest and strongest arguments for The Theory of Evolution?
thenexttodie said:What is the best evidence for Darwinian evolution?
Rhed said:Sorry, let me rephrase the question. What are your best arguments for and against common descent?
Bango Skank said:Some humans have tails when they are born and sometimes even some muscles to control it in some degree. Is this tail a remnant from our ape side (apes have no tails though?) or from our fish side, or something else?
Nesslig20 said:Bango Skank said:Some humans have tails when they are born and sometimes even some muscles to control it in some degree. Is this tail a remnant from our ape side (apes have no tails though?) or from our fish side, or something else?
The most recent ancestor of ours that did have tails were the probably early hominoids that as they themselves are derived from the old world monkey group "Catarrhines". Over the years all hominoids that still had a tail wen't extinct. Hominoids is a fancy name for apes. The tail that we lost evolved after the first chordates arose. One of the trait that defines chordata is a post-anal tail and we still develop one during embryonic development, even if you are born without one.
So humans being born with tails is an atavism of our ancestors that normally did have tails after birth. It is a remnant from the most recent to the most ancient ancestor that had them.