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500 Million Year Old Fossil Found of Uknown Species Discovered

Yeah. Objects on Earth tend to move in straight lines, while objects in the heavens tend to move in circles. Objects from Earth launched into space tend to meet up with planets, moons, comets, and asteroids within a couple of meters of the desired point. It's all just tendencies...

Meanwhile, concerning evolution is this interesting find of an unusual type of species formation, in which a new parasitic ant species emerged while living in the same nest as the parent species within the past 37,000 years.

As with all studies of ants, it has large ramifications for human society. You see, the parasitic ant species is lazy and doesn't grow any food, it just steals it from the productive working class ants. To keep from upsetting the host workers (who are being scammed), the parasitic queens have evolved to blend in and look like a productive worker, even though they are shiftless, lazy, welfare parasites. To maintain their low profile, the parasite species queens and drones don't even leave the nest to mate like a normal ant (who don't do the nasty in front of all the little ant children). No, they just meet up down in the nest, in whatever flop house chamber they're inhabiting.

This ground-breaking finding shows that humans could actually speciate without physical geographic isolation by providing an environment where welfare cheats can thrive while maintaining reproductive isolation by meeting up in different bars from regular folks.

This is political trolling ("shiftless, lazy, welfare parasites") where you know very well it isn't allowed or appreciated.

You have been cautioned previously about this sort of behavior. This time it's an infraction.

You are free to make positive contributions in SciTech, but leave out the trolling political commentary.

Everyone else: if you think someone is trolling, report it. Accusations of trolling are still against the rules--notify on it and leave it for the mod(s). Thank you.
 
Actually the study of ants would be a good study to get involved with along the lines of evolution.

Ants have been around for a very long time harvesting and moving seeds around the planet to create new gardens. Just like the birds and other species that feed on seeds you could that they are the ones who first planted the flora and fauna on Earth from where it first began to grown in abundance from.

If his centralized source of seed harvesting and spreading of the early seeds of flora and fauna on Earth can be found then perhaps we would be able to then track the foot print of humanities evolution in greater detail.

I guess you could call those of use looking for such beginnings as Source Hunters. Always looking for a singular source and then going in deeper within that source to find another large layer to once again look for said layers source.

Source Hunter's is what they will be called in the future.
 
Actually, ants evolved only fairly recently (at least compared to the history of animal life); the oldest ant fossils are around 100 million years old from amber in France and Burma. That's much older than humans, of course, but ants first evolved substantially later than the first plants. Plants first moved onto land more than 425 million years ago, even before there were animals on land. Wind would have been important for spreading their spores and allowing those early land plants to colonize new areas.
 
As one of Earth's proud and noble Source Hunters, I have to distance myself from what ever the hell Dryson is talking about. We, The Source Hunters, find no logical basis for his ramblings.

If anyone out there would like a Source Hunter T-shirt, please feel free to contact us care of Duncan McCloud at Thesource.com.
 
I personally find this fascinating. The OP's ideas certainly are strange, but he does at least seem to be sincere in a desire to explore them soI think the thread should be allowed to continue.
 
I can't help feeling that these discussions would do better in Misc.

Oh, I dunno, TNZ woiuld find them... informative. :demon:

You would think that humans and apes would have evolved right along with the rest of the species on Earth from the very beginning.
Um. Um. Um. Really?


oooook, I'll bite. ;)

Yes, humans and apes, and elephants and ants, and tigers and snails should have started to evolve from the very beginning and they DID!
it's just that their eventual shapes and forms were never determined back then.
life on this planet (for the most part) is a single unbroken branched chain of ancestors and decendents.
Some branches became dead ends and those species at the end of them became extinct.

but every living organism today can trace it's origin back to the very first living cells and technically even the very first self replicating RNA molecules.
And thus, yes, evolution of every lifeform on this planet started back then.
We just shared a lot of the road with 99.9% of every other lifeform somewhere on the way and looked a lot different back then. ;)
 
I think one of the biggest reasons people misunderstand evolution is this image:


Iconic, and one of the worst examples of science communication there is.

I think it is representative of the fundamental misunderstanding of evolution that most people have; that it is a straight line of progress to an endpoint, and that the endpoint is man. The image imparts the false notion that we evolved from chimps as well, leading to the whole, "If we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys?" line. People need to have more familiarity with the cladogram, as it is a much more accurate representation of how evolution actually works.

 
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