Re: Absence of Canines in Apiths


"JAE" <jae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim McGinn wrote:
> > "JAE" <jae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > quercophile wrote:
> > > > Jim McGinn wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Communal selection explains it. Not warfare. Chimp vs. chimp
> > warefare is
> > > > > completely impossible for a species that has yet to achieve
ecological
> > > > > dominance. It is only after Apith achieved ecological dominance
that
> > apith
> > > > > vs. apith wars are possible.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jane Goodall observed one troop of chimps systematically killing all
> > > > the male and older female members of an adjacent trioop, taking over
a
> > > > large chunk of their territory, (They were unable to patrol it all
and
> > > > lost some to other adjacent chimp troops.) and co-opting the fecund
> > > > females. Maybe you don't want to call it warfare but it looks like
it
> > > > to me.
> > >
> > > Jim will most likely not regard this as warfare (or warefare, whatever
> > > that is).
> >
> > Yes, you're right. Read my response to Q and see if you can address
it's
> > details on a point by point basis.
>
> No point. When you compare anything to your "hypothesis," you've lost
> it since you can't seem to show anyone where your hypothesis exists in
> any form other than the bizarre multiple postings of a clearly
> psychologically challenged delusional megalomaniac who exists as an
> 'expert' only in his own dreadfully undermedicated mind. While your
> 'hypothesis' is still not in any form that anyone can address (e.g.
> while you still claim that it's the product of many postings) and like
> a scared little puppy terrified of presening anything comprehensible
> for fear of destroying the illusion that only he believes, there's no
> point in responding to you on a 'point by point' basis because on point
> one, having a coherant thought, you've failed miserably.
>

It must be frustrating to be so sure you are right and so completely unable
to say how or why.

Jim McGinn
Still the World's Greatest Evolutionary Theorist


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