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Tallen
28th November 2006, 09:06 AM
They missed it again. Primordial ooze! :BigB:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061127/sc_space/galacticbabyboominfluencedlifeonearth
Joe S
28th November 2006, 10:17 AM
I was watching the courtship dance of ostriches on TV last night and wondering how that evolved. There must have been some glitch in the brains of a pair of ostrich ancestors that caused the male to fall to the ground and wave his head back and forth while the female lowered her head to the ground and strut along flapping her wings. She sees the male having his fit and that causes a sensory overload and she collapses. Then the male tippy-toes (another brain misfire I reckon) up to her and mounts. These genetic anomalies are obviously survival traits that made the pair more successful at reproducing, so the non dancing ostriches were eventually reproduced out of existence.

Of course this assumes that ostrich ancestors were flightless, which probably won't fly. So maybe a male ostrich ancestor hits a tree branch and falls to the ground in a daze, fluttering, moaning and bobbing his head around. The female sees it, and, thinking he will be an easy meal, drops to the ground and lowers her head, running up to him with wings flapping in anticipation. At the last moment he jumps up, startling her and she faints. Then the male, not wishing to wake her, tippy-toes up to her and mounts. This superb mating strategy is so successful that it is seared into both their DNA, so now we get dancing ostriches. :clap:

How can anybody not believe in evolution?:bigthink: :BigB:
Tallen
28th November 2006, 12:13 PM
How can anybody not believe in evolution?:bigthink: :BigB:

:biglol: And an ostrich is such a dumb animal, it's a good thing that evolution was on its side.

BTW, if evolution is the adaptation of the fittest, why is there sex in the first place. It would make sense if we would have evolved sexless, and divided, cloning ourselves, to assure that the adaption was always of the most fittest of beings. Sex is an anti-evolutionary process, it would seem. :bigthink:
graceshaker
5th January 2007, 08:49 PM
nonliving proteins making what amounts to patriarchal survival decisions.

yah. scientists are pretty smart. :bigtup: