Walking on all fours with the ancestors
By Sam Lister
FIVE brothers and sisters who can only walk naturally on all fours are being hailed as a unique insight into human evolution, after being found in a remote corner of rural Turkey.
Scientists believe that the family may provide invaluable information on how Man evolved from a four-legged hominid to develop the ability to walk on two feet more than three million years ago.
A genetic abnormality, which may prevent the siblings, aged 18 to 34, from walking upright, has been identified.
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Flyingcursor wrote:And babies live in fluid before they're born so that must mean they evolved from sea creatures.
yada yada yada.
ontogeny recapitualtes phylogeny, or so they told me in college.
Flibbidy-dibbidy. Flobidob blib-blob-bleep, or so they told ME in college!
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Walking on all fours with the ancestors
By Sam Lister
FIVE brothers and sisters who can only walk naturally on all fours are being hailed as a unique insight into human evolution, after being found in a remote corner of rural Turkey.
Scientists believe that the family may provide invaluable information on how Man evolved from a four-legged hominid to develop the ability to walk on two feet more than three million years ago.
A genetic abnormality, which may prevent the siblings, aged 18 to 34, from walking upright, has been identified.
nothing suprising. they're all over capitol hill and at 1600 pennsylvania ave. but much less highly evolved in washington.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love.
Love is not music. Music is the best.
- Frank Zappa
Those poor people. They look so ridiculous, but are seen smiling in a few pictures and are described as having "tremendous warmth and humanity" and also as "mentally retarded." Their parents are also apparently both mentally retarded as well.
I've read a bit about them, and these five siblings with this kind of walking have over a dozen other siblings with brain damage of one sort or another, apparently. It makes me sad that there could be a whole family of 20 retarded people, five of whom walk like animals, and nobody noticed until now.
It's quite interesting, though. It reminds me of the family in Mexico (or Honduras?) where a few of the people born into it are completely covered in hair all their lives...
If only they'd told us that ontogeny sort of recapitulates phylogeny. A few months ago I could conceivably have felt a big thread coming on at this point from Wombat and Darwin...
Most of my teachers at the grammar school I went to had one "clever thing" they liked to come out with. The aforementioned bon mot was the preserve of the biology teacher (to whom we accorded the soubriquet, deservedly, "Jelly Belly"). Our Latin master liked to tell us that "Caesar adsum iam forte...etc."
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Tyler Morris wrote:Flibbidy-dibbidy. Flobidob blib-blob-bleep, or so they told ME in college!
Hmm.. Sounds to me like you are actually recalling episodes of "Bill and Ben the Flowerpot men," though somewhat imperfectly.
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
