Re: Homo erectus, city dweller and sailor

On Sep 9, 5:21 pm, Tom McDonald <kilt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
veritas wrote:

<snip--see how easy?>

As the neurologist told me, "Just because you are 98.5% the same in
DNA structure does not prove you are kin to a particular species. It
proves that the tasks you perform require similar body parts.
Remember, a mouse has about 90% of the same DNA as you. Does that
make you part mouse? No." That is what he told me. Regards, Ken

He was wrong, or you didn't understand him. Was he a creationist
or ID follower, by any chance? <shudder>

All life on Earth is related. Evolution displays that
relationship in the twin nested hierarchies of life--DNA and
morphology. Sort of the 'Tree of Life', but with clades instead
of branches.

DNA charts that relationship. We are not mice; but we share a
common ancestor with mice, albeit some time ago. We share a much
more recent common ancestor with other great apes; and can be
considered, as I consider us, the 'third chimpanzee'; since we
share a more recent common ancestor with the other two chimp
species than we do with gorillas; and a more common ancestor with
gorillas than with Old Men of the Forest.

According to modern biological systematics, humans are members of
each clade (think 'taxon', mostly) in our full Linnean designation:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Subspecies: H. s. sapiens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

(I would add "Life" above the Kingdom level, since we are also
related to all life on earth:

* Life on Earth (Gaeabionta)
o Nanobes ?
o Acytota **?
o Cytota
+ Bacteria *
+ Neomura
# Archaea
# Eukaryota
* Bikonta
o Apusozoa
o Cabozoa
+ Rhizaria
+ Excavata
o Corticata
+ Archaeplastida
# Rhodophyta
# Glaucophyta
# Plantae
+ Chromalveolata
# Heterokontophyta
# Haptophyta
# Cryptophyta
# Alveolata
* Unikonta
o Amoebozoa
o Opisthokonta
+ Choanozoa
+ Fungi
+ Animalia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

We are much more connected, in far more interesting ways, to
everything else than you are perhaps aware, or willing to allow.

Me? I do so love being hooked in to everything. :-)

I actually did not discuss with either what their religious beliefs
were. If I were to take a guess the one that told the story of the
computer was agnostic, the one about the elephant perhaps a little.
But they are Neurologists, they think THEY are God. And remember I
was getting this information for a book that is 95% fiction, so I
really wasn't much interested in our class. Just whether a DNA system
as we have it would work anywhere in this galaxy. Their answer was:
I don't know why not. It works well here." That was my main concern
at the time. But some of the other comments were that a lot of
putting living creatures in classes were based on how similar they
were built and with DNA it has become a different world. Regards, Ken
--
"Truth does not give a damn what we conceive. We survive or perish
according to our ability to discern the truth correctly and act upon
it." - Ken www.veritasnovel.com

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