Re: Refs, please... was... Re: AAT Theory

Paul Crowley (Paul@crowleyp.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 22 Oct 95 00:12:23 GMT

In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.951021155402.2520B-100000@curly.cc.utexas.edu>
eohippus@curly.cc.utexas.edu "David Froehlich" writes:

> No movement is required if the environment is changing around you. It is
> either adapt or die.

This is the "evolution forces" error.

> But AAS does presume that they spent enough of their time in the water to
> adapt to it. This is the basic premise of AAS.

This sounds a bit like it too.

> however the ones living in the northern edges of it when the
> Miocene environment started to change might have had to adapt to a
> different environment.

Definitely the "evolution forces" error again

Maybe it's just bad expression. But it's very bad expression.

Paul.