"The straight line has blossomed into a spreading, rather uncontrolled bush and we don’t like it. We want our history to be nice and neat, but the fossils keep messing us up." http://www.news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070902/sc_livescience/humanfamilytreenowatangledmessybush
2007-09-03 02:17:39 · 3 answers · asked by THEHATEDTRUTH 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
This is what science is about. Finding more evidence and filling in more gaps.
Finding something new is exciting.
Unless you are a creationist.
2007-09-03 05:07:39 · answer #1 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans want to feel superior. They like the idea of a straight line of evolution because it implies that we were the ultimate goal of evolution, that there was a need and a plan for us to be here.
I think, though, that the article exaggerates somewhat. There are those of us who think it's pretty darn cool that human evolution took so many twists and turns. And people who understand evolution would have expected this and been baffled by the lack of such evidence prior to these "new" exhumations.
2007-09-03 09:33:42 · answer #2 · answered by Sci Fi Insomniac 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is complicated and complex, no way of getting around that fact. Unless you subscribe to the Creationist prospective. Then life is very simple.
I cant understand why people think that biology is so simple. Biology, biological systems are the most complex things we know.
I don't have any problems with the content of that article.
2007-09-03 09:45:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋