“transitional fossils”At what point in the evolutionary timescale did x become y?On a timescale that we can grasp, at what point does an infant become a toddler, become a child, become an adolescent, become a man? gradual changes over time
I have long contended that ontogeny etc. continues behaviorly after birth: fish wiggling, to lizard crawling, to mammalian quadruped walking (knees rather than hind feet), to bipedal with the skill of a gibbon (but arms out rather than up), but he left out thd next stage – they go arborial and try to climb everything!
comicgos over 13 years ago
I know one at the dog bowl at the moment!
MontanaLady over 13 years ago
Wow!!! Look at that……he evolved from a crawling baby to a Frankenstein monster!!!
Coyoty Premium Member over 13 years ago
The Ascent of Baby.
lewisbower over 13 years ago
Damned kid better learn to stay out of the cabinet or he’ll learn about natural selection.
osceola over 13 years ago
This is Creationism if I ever saw it. Charles Darwin was born almost thirty years before the invention of photography.
betseytacy over 13 years ago
I’m not getting this one.
prrdh over 13 years ago
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
He seems a little slow. I doubt it took me 6 months to get into the dogfood.
tsandl over 13 years ago
More like “Progeny recapitulates phylogeny.”
gofinsc over 13 years ago
But he’s still a human baby!
ANonIMouse over 13 years ago
“transitional fossils”At what point in the evolutionary timescale did x become y?On a timescale that we can grasp, at what point does an infant become a toddler, become a child, become an adolescent, become a man? gradual changes over time
comicnut4636 over 13 years ago
abucksworth Premium Member over 13 years ago
Personally, it looks like “Survival of the Fattest” to me – he is huge by the last panel…
hippogriff over 13 years ago
I have long contended that ontogeny etc. continues behaviorly after birth: fish wiggling, to lizard crawling, to mammalian quadruped walking (knees rather than hind feet), to bipedal with the skill of a gibbon (but arms out rather than up), but he left out thd next stage – they go arborial and try to climb everything!
Coyoty Premium Member over 13 years ago
It looks like some people here have had evolution withheld from them in school.
ferseiti over 13 years ago
hmmmmm no