An unoriginal thought

Jon Davis (Jon_Davis@isk.karisi.co.ke)
29 May 1995 06:07:02 GMT

As senior in high school, I probably have no right to be posting here. But
throughout all of my searching I have not found any valid proof against a
little thought of mine. According to evolution (correct me if I'm wrong) all
species, over a huge chunk of time, develop adaptations to fit their
environment, even to the point of developing new species altogether; this
takes place from random genetic mutations that happen to help the species in
survival... right? So tell me... why are all the species that are out
there so alike in themselves, and so different from each other? I mean, it's
not difficult to tell a dog from a cat. There are no half- one things, half-
other things out there. They're considered to have been taken care of
millions of years ago, and everyone is still in search of such fossils.

Secondly, I've asked another similar question to someone before, and her
answer added something like, "duh, Jon... you need to keep up on scientific
common sense..." After her explanation I still wasn't convinced, and was
perhaps convinced less! My question to her was, "Why are there apes running
around today if the half-ape/half-human species were better developed than
the full-apes? If the environment changed and the half-ape/half-human
species died off, wouldn't the full-apes already have been extinct? How,
then, did the full-ape become a half-ape/half-human if it did not lose its
old genetic makup (full-ape become extinct)?
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