KCdgw
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| Quote (Henry J @ Aug. 07 2014,22:13) | Re "Chimpanzees are so obviously unlike humans - in any way that matters"
Did anybody ask exactly what major body parts are supposedly present in one of the two species that aren't present in the other? Or failing that, some parts present in both but so different as to have entirely different functions? Not merely proportions of the same parts that are (or can be) mostly still used for pretty much the same things, but something actually so different that it could reasonably be called "unlike".
Heck, to find a related species with body part we don't (usually) have, I'd have to go all the way back to monkeys with tails. (Although even there, humans have a vestigial tail that can cause lifelong recurring problems if somebody falls and breaks it while at a skating rink.)
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Indeed. "Jerry" over in UD once stated that it took incredible amounts of new information to produce macroevolutionary change at the level of new genera (I think "new genera" was his example).
So I upped the ante to families by asking what huge differential in information there was between squirrels and gophers.
I don't remember jerry's exact response, but I do recall the grinding noise of goalposts being shifted.
Edited by KCdgw on Aug. 08 2014,08:40
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