Explosive Evolution
Explosive Evolution
by JTV
I'm an Evolutionary Culturologist, but, in all my reading on evolution over the years, I've never seen it explained quite this way, (see my diagram below) but, I find it interesting and useful.
(& Please comment below, if you've ever seen this aspect of evolution, explained in quite this way, before! I would love to know, who has had the same thought I did... Convergence of ideas is always fascinating. And happens: a lot.)
So, as a Preface...
First, read H G Wells' Appendix chapter, at the end, in A Modern Utopia (1903).
i.e., His:
APPENDIX: SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT
A Portion of a Paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society, November 8, 1903, and reprinted, with some Revision, from the Version given in Mind, vol. xiii. (N.S.), No. 51.
Now, look at this diagram...
In (1) on the left, we see a circle, with a red dot at the center... That small central red dot represents "the year dot", say, about 4 billion years ago... when single-celled life first emerged. The circumference of the circle (the outer edge) represents: now. So,
time
progress "outwards from the center" of the circle, in this model.In (2) on the right, it shows life evolving into different species. But, less than 1% makes it to: now. (Over 99% of species are: extinct.) So we never see the red bits in (2), as, they died out.
...If they didn't go extinct, we'd see all life on Earth as a spectrum, with no gaps!
So, like this:
Just as an example, there'd be a spectrum - from fish, through fish-lizards, to lizards.Or, pick two random, related species, and there'd be a similar spectrum...
In fact ALL species would be on a spectrum like this. ...No gaps!
But, because 99% of species went extinct, we don't see all the (dead and gone) ones, that fill in the gaps...
We instead, now see different species (that also can't interbreed and produce fertile offspring; as, one current definition of biological "species".) And they all look pretty different from each other. But only because we're only seeing the surviving 1%.
And, we (humanimals) are part of that surviving 1%.
...Fascinating.
Anyway, read that chapter by H G Wells, it's also: fascinating!
THE END
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