They are saying no such thing! They have said (& I've bolded it in your quote) that the two groups had similar lifestyles !! Any physical...
Bob Bakker published some work around 20 years ago, looking at the predator-prey ratios in different ecosystems. (Many dinosaurs weren't predators...
One thing to remember with species is that they don't have to look startlingly different in order to be separate species; they just need to be...
Mammals evolved well before the dinosaurs became extinct, although while the dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrates, mammals were probably small &...
I'd go a bit further on "theory":To scientists, a theory is a coherent explanation for a large number of facts and observations about the natural...
I think it was Newton that said something along the lines of "If I've done so much, it's only because I stood on the shoulders of giants". In other...
You suggest that the various erectus populations evolved into several different species & these somehow then combined/hybridised so we've only got...
Fresh water contains around 7% dissolved oxygen - it's less in salt water. Fish extract this using a really neat counter-current system in their...
Well, the 2 adult skulls (the ones on the left) look like what you'd get from head-binding, which is/was relatively common in some cultures. The...
You might want to start by reading David Quammen's excellent article in the December "National Geographic". But I'd have to say that describing the...
Like Charonz says, the 2nd law of thermodynamics applies to closed systems ie they don't have a constant inflow of energy. This does not apply to...
Towards the end of WWII Holland (the Netherlands) was treated pretty much like a country-sized concentration camp by the Nazis ie starvation diets...
Antarctica has been completely ice-covered for at least the last 150,000 years - it had significant ice cover 50 million years ago (during the...
I think it's more a case of the media getting their wires crossed. Mitochondrial & nuclear DNA trace modern humans back to a "common ancestor" living...
I'd suggest reading David Quammen's excellent feature article in the December "National Geographic". The header is "Was Darwin Wrong?" & the article...
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