tree of life

Brad McFall bsmcfall at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 26 13:56:40 CST 2001


The picture of evolution as I described from my Grandfather's papers as a
Darwin tangled bush or rather as I found in the attic, a tree with ice if
drawn with a monophylocode on the left as a looking like a tree branch
growing to the sun or with the direction of the wind; a splitting
(divergence) in the middle and a parrallel "growth" on the right:: a little
higher on the right than the left and with ice between the angles creates a
depth perception with two places where Meso Evolution would be considered
to have occurred.  Microevolution would be the line connecting the
reticulation +- splitting (with or without apobaramins) and Macroevolution
the extent of the "ice" volume.  My grandfather had a particular view of
the intestine I will not comment on here relevant to embyology.

If one "thought of this picture as a tunicate" such that the left and the
right become a snake's eyes, microevolution can be visualized as the
skeleton and the discussion of homology reverts to Owen's skull.
Creationists assert this is not possible.  The answer had been group
selection.

Please let us find a solution for this what I wish was never cast in terms
of pattern and process for the concurrent discussion of homology.  You do
need a specific physical proposal not a bio-mathematics.  I am tired of
looking at the hemipenis and the forked tongue as the same divergence time.

I guess we would need to return to Buffon's own days.  To say as much as
Provine apparently commented on my submitted thesis that the composition
appeared "random" does belie the "snippet" appelation but rather pointed to
the natural selectionist's incomprehension of chance as randomness. The
logic of rooting will remain until this is cleared up but see that Croizat
clearly cognized a difference between central and internal. This point has
been lost in the standard deviation and the statistical significance became
the "genes for horns" of tiantotheres which were rather insectivores. Go
fish.  BSM.




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