" How so you now supposed new species emerge?"
Modern science has confined the human evolution to the period between the late Miocene eight million years ago and 100,000 years ago..This period marks an evolutionary transition from the common ancestor with modern chimpanzee to modern humans...in seeking a specific model or framework to analyze and study how new species emerge perhaps the one that makes more sense is the space between order and chaos...This zone is where systems of life transforms into another...a way of assessing unexplained phenomena..in this formulation there is the transformation of neural networking pathways that give rise to very complex functions as a result of being in the "edge of chaos..." This transitional phase is something to observe without judgment or quantitative measures...Non-linear rippling movement of mutations can occur in this stage.. could this framework predict and capture the essence when the caterpillar is about to transform...could it explain our origins? The evolutionary perspective continues to make attempts to explain the hybrid nature of mankind...it would more interesting to seek how the animals and the plant life generate as information-processing networks and how refined the changes occur over a timeline..
" Do you vote for the chicken or the egg?"
So if two non-chicken parents got together and gave rise to a new species because of a genetic mutation...I am really interested to know more about the parents and how their chemistry attracted each other ...questions arise...like were they both from the same species? what was going on with its environment...as a result a species emerged and the taste bud of humanity decided to call it chicken because it tastes the same around the world... so I have heard. I have never tasted or eaten a chicken..
but I decided to rent 'chicken little ," DVD...to understand their plight..
I appreciate what you wrote about how new species emerge. The whole 'nonlinear' idea is really helpful to see written down in consideration of adaptation. This leads me to a greater understanding of my own limitations in understanding evolution. The way my mind is set up wants things to be linear and that is not how life works. Thanks for the reminder!
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