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fygment writes "... according to recent studies. It seems were more closely related to rodents than the carnivores i.e. the primates didn't evolve from the noble jungle cats, wolves, etc. Were closer to rats. Of course this has long been suspected in lawyers and SCO execs ..."
so watch your tounge when you are saying they are lawyers.. or even SCO execs.. you insensitive clod!
Of course this has long been suspected in lawyers and SCO execs ...
I believe you are having trouble telling the difference between rodents and dung beetles.
..but that doesn't explain why my tail is on the front side.
Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
The blurb from "fygment" must have been written by a mouse, as there's hardly a complete sentence in that jumble of incoherent fragments. I find this situation has become all too common on slashdot recently. If you can't be bothered to write a cohesive paragraph with complete sentences, then stop submitting to slashdot. You may not think it's important, but when you write things that will be read by a number of people it is essential. Use whatever style you want in email or IM but if you're going to submit something for public consumption you should take the time to learn how to use English, otherwise you just come off looking like a rambling idiot.
But we knew this all along after all the mice built this planet
"Mice are not, as is commonly assumed on Earth, small white squeaking animals who spend a lot of time being experimented on.
In fact, they are the protrusions into our dimension of hyper-intellegent pan-dimensional beings. These beings are in fact responsible for the creation of the Earth."
See the video here waning its real media
Bad Panda! No Bamboo for you! In matters of importance ACs will not be responded to. Want to say something critical,OK
And men.
What have men got to do with this?
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Perhaps this research will allow to make some adjustments to the tree. However, there are already interesting facts in the current version. For example, bats are closer to primates than most other mammals. On the other hand, armadillos must have branched very early, although they did it after opossums.
The mammalian line forks into one group that goes on to split into felines and canines, and another that further splits into rodents and primates.
Next this poster will post an article that says Birds are closer to reptiles than to humans. I'm no biologist but I can tell when someone tries to pass an encyclopaedia fact for a breakthrough news.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
So, I suppose this means the title of Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men is redundant.
Tha part of the tree you refer to is unresolved , a polytomy.
What is important in a phylogenetic tree is branching order. When the branching order is uncertain or ambiguous, a polytomy is put in place. The placement of the branches in a polytomy are usually arbitrary, or in alphabetical order.
From the tree, you can tell that primates are most closely related to tree shrews, and that the group (primates + tree shrews) in turn is most closely related to bats and colugos.
> That is, of course, if you buy into the farce of evolution. I've never seen a generation so inclinced to believe a lie without proof. If you'd think for yourself, and not read the textbooks, you might realize that evolution isn't even an option.
Not read the textbooks? Sounds like "stay ignorant" is the key to your plan for understanding the universe.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I, for one, welcome our new rodent overlords!
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham