(June 27, 2020 at 2:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(June 27, 2020 at 1:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, Brian, you’re misunderstanding what TGN said. Literally EVERYTHING that is currently alive survived all major and minor extinction events. The evidence of this is so brutally obvious that it doesn’t need explaining, but I’ll have a go.
-All life on Earth (you, me, Tardigrades, camels, penguins, cats) is descended from a common ancestor.
-This ancestor, via reproduction, mutation, and selection, formed multiple lines of descent.
-These lines, through the same processes, formed their own lines. And so on and so on.
-Everything alive today represents the current state of one or more if these lines of descent.
-Therefore, the ancestor species of living camels did not go extinct.
This doesn’t mean that there are no extinct species - there obviously are. What it means is that from the very first living organism to you is that there is a solid, unbroken chain of descent that never went extinct. This is true for every single living organism we see today.
I hope this clears it up a little.
Boru
You probably need to get out the crayons and puppets.
Nah, just trying to help clear up a little misunderstanding.
Boru
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