Re: Cloned Australoppthecines In our Future?

Geoff Lewis (Geoff3@ix.netcom.com)
3 Apr 1995 07:51:41 GMT

In <bardD6G3zn.JFD@netcom.com> bard@netcom.com (BARD) writes:

>
>In article <3lo28r$b9u@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
>Geoff Lewis <Geoff3@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>In <bardD67Foq.CFM@netcom.com> bard@netcom.com (BARD) writes:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Future source of dumb labor?
>>>
>>> Or will it ever be technologically possible to obtain the
>>> necessary genetic material from existing skeletal remains
>>> of these creatures? Somehow I have the feeling that mother
>>> earth hasn't seen the last of them.
>>>
>>> And this question continues to nag me: why did the apes
>>> survive and not the Australopithecines?
>>>
>>>
>>> Bard
>>>
>>
>> Obviously, the apes are well adapted to life in the trees,
>> because they still exist today. The australopithecines evolved
>> into the homo habilis, which evolved into the homo erectus,
and
>> survive.
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>
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> Nope...
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> Had it been decided to kill all the apes they wouldn't exist
either, no
> matter their skill at tree dwelling.
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> And...
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> Sub-species don't automatically die out.
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> BARD
>

Who decided to kill all the apes?
And, I'm not talking about sub-species that die out. I'm talking
about them changing, as a whole, over millions of years.

Alvin