Re: Reply to Holloway

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In article <575968712wnr@desco.demon.co.uk>, Elaine@desco.demon.co.uk wrote:

<...>
: they're told we're descended from apes on the forest edge
: (presumably taking a solemn oath not the mate with their
: kinfolk deeper in the forest) and they swallow that whole
<...>

A solemn oath that might have taken the form of external or behavioural
differences that resulted in sexual selection according to well-known
principles.

-- 

John "Chris" Wilkins, Assoc. Prof. of Recent Runes, Uni of Ediacara

Also: Head of Communication Services, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Home Page: http://www.wehi.edu.au/~wilkins/www.html 

I'd be willing to argue that point (said the arachnid to the dipteran) - Chris Colby on talk.origins

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