Re: Haldane's Lemma


"Walter ReMine" <science@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e8bfne$14m6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
But Walter ReMine confuses this issue since he insists
on talking about 8 million years of evolution of humans
from whatever ape-like ancestor we had 8 million years
ago. Apparently he got the 8 million figure from
an obsolete estimate of when humans and chimps
diverged. It is pure coincidence that the two 8 million
numbers match, but the match has caused some
confusion.

That misrepresents me. I allowed ten million years (not 8 million
years) ...

I stand corrected. But at least I got it right that you are talking
about the time on one lineage (not necessarily starting from the
chimp/human divergence). You are not talking about summing time
on two divergent lineages.

But I think you are too quick to use the word "misrepresentation"
rather than "confusion", and also too unwilling to admit that some
of the confusion is your fault.

OF COURSE most evolutionists tend to focus on adding the comparison
between chimp and human rather than the comparison between human and
ancestor. That is the comparison we have some real data for. We
don't have any empirical knowlege of how many genetic differences
there are between humans and their ancestors of 10 million years ago.
All we have are intuitions.


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