It depends how you are defining domestication? but OK it could be said that the flower demesticated the bee in some way.Theoryofrelativity said:so humans did not create domestication,
It depends how you are defining domestication? but OK it could be said that the flower demesticated the bee in some way.Theoryofrelativity said:so humans did not create domestication,
imaplanck. said:One that is able to pollenate without bees(because living in a bee devoid area). Second plant of the same genus that spread to a pro-bee area can be observed to attract bees and thus thrive in comparison to its cousin.
Are you assuming that the unevolved bee had no other food sources before the flower?perplexity said:But do you understand the problem that people have with this?
It is easy enough to imagine the flower without bee but what about a partially evolved flower with a partially evolved bee, half way up the slopes of mount improbable?
What does that look like? An obvious example to help to tell me does not spring to mind.
--- Ron.
No not at all. It would have indeed been the case that at one point the bee and flower were both only partially evolved (in the sense of their partnership)but they still had a mutual benifit to one another albeit in a smaller way than todays relationship.It is easy enough to imagine the flower without bee but what about a partially evolved flower with a partially evolved bee, half way up the slopes of mount improbable?
imaplanck. said:Are you assuming that the unevolved bee had no other food sources before the flower?
No not at all. It would have indeed been the case that at one point the bee and flower were both only partially evolved (in the sense of their partnership)but they still had a mutual benifit to one another albeit in a smaller way than todays relationship.
Prince_James said:The stick bug needn't come before or after trees, only adapt to trees once they are there, et cetera. In fact, that the stick bug can mimic a tree at all is just a coincidence, just as computer-users were created before the computer in the above example, but would've died off.
Well done congrats! only I dont think you are going to overturn the entire theory of evolution through one tiny hole. good maneuvering though, are you a hustler by any chance?Theoryofrelativity said:http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/Faculty/sipes/earlyangiosperms.html
"Early evolution of bee/angiosperm relationships
Bees and angiosperms have had an intimate and ancient relationship at least since the Cretaceous. Bees are currently the most important pollinators of many angiosperms, and bees rely exclusively on angiosperms for adult and larval nutrition. Animal pollination in general has been hypothesized to be a significant factor promoting angiosperm diversification. In spite of the obvious relationship between bees and flowering plants, and the potential significance of bee pollination on flowering plant diversity, the historical interactions between bees and angiosperms in the earliest stages of bee evolution have not been investigated in detail. This is primarily because the bee fossil record is fragmentary (making accurate dating of bee origins difficult), and the higher level phylogenetic relationships within bees have not been well established. "
Interesting, little did I know when I asked this question it is indeed one of those that are so hard if not impossible to answer, although the article leads one to believe that they try to do so. Fascinating...too marvelous.
imaplanck. said:Well done congrats! only I dont think you are going to overturn the entire theory of evolution through one tiny hole. good maneuvering though, are you a hustler by any chance?
Because.Why does the evolutionary process exist?
Theoryofrelativity said:hehe, I guess you could say I am 'holier' than thou!
Satyr said:Having been inspired by TheopryofRelativity in her response to my thread Religion I answer her thread’s question:
Because.
I’m beginning to get a hang of this place.
Yes.Theoryofrelativity said:
I knew you'd like it.
Theoryofrelativity said:so we are in agreement then
epigenetics demonstrates that genetic variation can and does take place in response to environemntal factors, and that we cannot create life and have never seen a single example of spontaneous life thus
We have not yet reached the level of 'conscious' intelligence as is possessed and demonstrated by our genes.
All hail the mighty 'gene'
Consider this:
we agree
We originated from a single 'gene'
we agree that life spontaneoulsy popped up in the begginning before the biological evolution and repscence of toxic O2.
we also agree life possibly originated in space
So WHAT IF
somewhere in space when that first 'spontaneous' gene popped up, LONG before it popped up on Earth, it 'evolved' and genetically variated and adapted into a life form far advanced to ourselves and MUCH sooner than our appearance on Earth, hundreds possibly thousands of yrs previous.
Is this impossible?
swivel said:Yes.
Yes, who said otherwise?Theoryofrelativity said:so we are in agreement then
epigenetics demonstrates that genetic variation can and does take place in response to environemntal factors, and that we cannot create life and have never seen a single example of spontaneous life thus
I would debate that, we are basically at the level of intelligence that our genes dictates at this moment in time.We have not yet reached the level of 'conscious' intelligence as is possessed and demonstrated by our genes.
You mean that another planet was seeded by panspermia and is now in further advanced intelligence than our own?we also agree life possibly originated in space
So WHAT IF
somewhere in space when that first 'spontaneous' gene popped up, LONG before it popped up on Earth, it 'evolved' and genetically variated and adapted into a life form far advanced to ourselves and MUCH sooner than our appearance on Earth, hundreds possibly thousands of yrs previous.
Is this impossible?
imaplanck. said:Yes, who said otherwise?
I would debate that, we are basically at the level of intelligence that our genes dictates at this moment in time.
You mean that another planet was seeded by panspermia and is now in further advanced intelligence than our own?
imaplanck. said:I would debate that, we are basically at the level of intelligence that our genes dictates at this moment in time.