Re: Cloned Australoppthecines In our Future?

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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.

Nope...

Had it been decided to kill all the apes they wouldn't exist either, no
matter their skill at tree dwelling.

And...

Sub-species don't automatically die out.

BARD

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