• Origins on a Rock

    From Glenn@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 4 11:26:34 2023
    “It looks like a tunicate that died yesterday and just happened to fall down on some rock,”

    https://www.science.org/content/article/half-billion-year-old-sea-squirt-could-push-back-origins-vertebrates-including-humans


    Gotta love those molecular "clocks". Some here make "Cuckoo" sounds. See if you can hear them below.

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  • From John Harshman@21:1/5 to Glenn on Fri Aug 4 13:24:03 2023
    On 8/4/23 11:26 AM, Glenn wrote:
    “It looks like a tunicate that died yesterday and just happened to fall down on some rock,”

    https://www.science.org/content/article/half-billion-year-old-sea-squirt-could-push-back-origins-vertebrates-including-humans


    Gotta love those molecular "clocks". Some here make "Cuckoo" sounds. See if you can hear them below.

    One gets tired of all the press release hype. The fact is that there are
    a fair number of known Cambrian vertebrates. A new Cambrian tunicate
    changes nothing about our understanding of vertebrate evolution.

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  • From Glenn@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Fri Aug 4 16:01:11 2023
    On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 1:26:03 PM UTC-7, John Harshman wrote:
    On 8/4/23 11:26 AM, Glenn wrote:
    “It looks like a tunicate that died yesterday and just happened to fall down on some rock,”

    https://www.science.org/content/article/half-billion-year-old-sea-squirt-could-push-back-origins-vertebrates-including-humans


    Gotta love those molecular "clocks". Some here make "Cuckoo" sounds. See if you can hear them below.

    One gets tired of all the press release hype. The fact is that there are
    a fair number of known Cambrian vertebrates. A new Cambrian tunicate
    changes nothing about our understanding of vertebrate evolution.

    There it is!

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  • From John Harshman@21:1/5 to Glenn on Fri Aug 4 16:26:38 2023
    On 8/4/23 4:01 PM, Glenn wrote:
    On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 1:26:03 PM UTC-7, John Harshman wrote:
    On 8/4/23 11:26 AM, Glenn wrote:
    “It looks like a tunicate that died yesterday and just happened to fall down on some rock,”

    https://www.science.org/content/article/half-billion-year-old-sea-squirt-could-push-back-origins-vertebrates-including-humans


    Gotta love those molecular "clocks". Some here make "Cuckoo" sounds. See if you can hear them below.

    One gets tired of all the press release hype. The fact is that there are
    a fair number of known Cambrian vertebrates. A new Cambrian tunicate
    changes nothing about our understanding of vertebrate evolution.

    There it is!

    I encourage you warmly to eat shit and die.

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  • From Glenn@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Fri Aug 4 20:40:09 2023
    On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 4:31:03 PM UTC-7, John Harshman wrote:
    On 8/4/23 4:01 PM, Glenn wrote:
    On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 1:26:03 PM UTC-7, John Harshman wrote:
    On 8/4/23 11:26 AM, Glenn wrote:
    “It looks like a tunicate that died yesterday and just happened to fall down on some rock,”

    https://www.science.org/content/article/half-billion-year-old-sea-squirt-could-push-back-origins-vertebrates-including-humans


    Gotta love those molecular "clocks". Some here make "Cuckoo" sounds. See if you can hear them below.

    One gets tired of all the press release hype. The fact is that there are >> a fair number of known Cambrian vertebrates. A new Cambrian tunicate
    changes nothing about our understanding of vertebrate evolution.

    There it is!

    I encourage you warmly to eat shit and die.

    And there you are!

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