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Re: Where are the zoologists?
Bryce Harrington (bharring@phakt.usc.edu)
14 Dec 1994 18:20:44 -0800
In article <3cluek$7jt@newsbf01.news.aol.com> patdooley@aol.com (Pat Dooley) writes:
>In article <3cipq6$8a6@badger.3do.com>, jjh@3do.com (Joel Hanes) writes:
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>>Both anthropologists and vert. paleontologists are
>>aware of the general falsity of "strict adaptionism" --
>>the idea that every feature of an organism is to be
>>explained, somehow, as an adaption to some selective
>>pressure.
I could believe this if the feature was sometimes present, sometimes
not, for example blue eyes, inny-belly buttons, left-handedness, etc.
But for features which are dominant and universal throughout the
entire species, like the nose, hairlessness, adiapose fat, bipedalism,
etc. there needs to be an explanation.
Bryce
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