Jack is at it again, pet peeve pondering the bete noire of human evolution. How did it all begin, and what were the crucial turning points?
How much weight should be given to this idea of orthogeny recapitulating phylogeny; the developing embryo enacting a sort of condensed replay of its racial history?
To Recapitulate It seems intuitively fitting. What More likely pattern of unfolding forth Should ovum blastulated notochorded Tadpole nymph embudded fetus follow, Than that which led to its existence to Begin with? But if it does apply, what do We make of the neotenous implications Inherent in the foramen magnum's Erect posture situation in The chimpanzee fetus? The spinal chord Departs the brain in such a way, at such A place, as strongly to imply an upright Gait. But then, with parturition looming Near, there is a gradual correction, To bring it back to its respectable And orthodox ape world positioning For all-four locomotion. But all agreement On the chimp or any simian ancestry Belies the implication; it never walked Upright. And neither did its atavistic Cousin father forebears. And stranger still That physiognomy non prognathous Of that same beastie portrays a modern Human baby look, as if worn by eons Back spent generations of some proto Apes, and then foregone again before The human race was thought of.
There has to be a logic to some portions Of the building plan, completely separate From the paradigm, some inescapable Requirements, to validate the scaffolding.
So then, let fit the part that fits, th'umbrella Theory enshrouds hypotheses by gross.
No need for one-to-one extrapolation In every part. No need to force the metaphor Analogy to every nook and cranny.
The outline is an outline, it offers argument Complete enough; we understand the drift.
So let it be and let it go. It works.
If some groups of these Abominable Sasquatch Bigfoot Yeti types are squarely apes, apes that came to walk upright in parallel-to-man development, then the same aboriginal gene-rating source would be a bifold origin for both man and upright ape.
So what we read from these anomalies is that there was a source for human traits, available in the accessible pool of genes, suggesting why there is this undoubted fact that man remarkably evokes an ape that never grew, a more or less retarded ape.
Haha. Apologies in deference to daddyo, you bet, but facts are facts. As we draw nigh to our maturity we come to look like proper apes, and our old age displays our noble heritage as we get hairier and shorter, and our extremities are more extreme.
The gods have had their fun with us.
But what about the godman?
The Virgin Birth, cardinal and central doctrine of The Catholic Church, the virgin birth of Jesus -Could it have been a parthenogenetic Happening? Contrived by 'accident'?
