Pandora wrote:
"It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly
every theory - if we look for confirmations."
Karl Popper (Conjectures and Refutations)
Well that certainly explains Naledi, now doesn't it?
In particular when your theory is just paleofantasy
Have you been diagnosed?
Savanna nonsense can't even explain the savanna.
"See, they were arboreal, adapted to the trees, then they moved
to a savanna BECAUSE REASONS and they, um, they endurance
ran & stuff. They made them evolve the ability to endurance ran,
plus made their brains grow bigger and talk. Yeah. That's what
they did. Next thing you know they're in Australia!"
then even
Shanidar Neandertals in the Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq can be confirmed to be coastal foragers.
As I've pointed out many, many, many, many, many times -- to no
avail -- and will likely be pointing it out many more times in the
future, GIANT sauropod dinosaurs have a skeleton seemingly
custom designed for rearing up on it's hind legs. Some will claim
that this is because they did so -- which is ridiculous -- while
others point out that it's evolved from a bipedal ancestor and
there's really no reason why it's skeleton should change, apart from
necessity.
"Selective pressure."
Remember though: Species aren't immortal. In the grand scheme of
things, the vast majority of all the species to have ever existed on
this earth have gone extinct.... past tense.
When we look at "Evolution" we are seeing what happened. We are
seeing those instances where there was the genetic capacity to
change in the face of necessity. If we want to know what it looks
like when a species lacks that capacity, we need to restrict out
view to extinct species.
"Good enough" is good enough. A trait doesn't have to vanish
simply because it's unnecessary or another trait would be better.
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