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12 May 2010, 4:13 pm

Sigh... The whole "Missing Link" thing is BS. There is no missing link. Every species is it own with it's own slight mutations from generation to generation. The whole mythos wants to find a animal in mid evolution which just doesn't happen. Individual creatures don't evolve.

The missing link evolution could only be seen over a vast period of time with fossils of each generation... A practical impossibility since only a tiny fraction of all creatures that have ever lived have fossilized remains.


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12 May 2010, 9:35 pm

When will they find the missing link between blue eyes and green eyes?

That makes as much sense as a missing link between apes and humans.


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13 May 2010, 12:53 pm

Fuzzy wrote:
When will they find the missing link between blue eyes and green eyes?

That makes as much sense as a missing link between apes and humans.


Hint: Common ancestor.

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13 May 2010, 2:59 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
When will they find the missing link between blue eyes and green eyes?

That makes as much sense as a missing link between apes and humans.


Hint: Common ancestor.

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No, I am pointing out that people exist that have blue-green eyes, but we dont consider it a 'missing link' but rather a normal and unremarkable place along a color spectrum.


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17 May 2010, 3:58 am

Fuzzy wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
When will they find the missing link between blue eyes and green eyes?

That makes as much sense as a missing link between apes and humans.


Hint: Common ancestor.

ruveyn


No, I am pointing out that people exist that have blue-green eyes, but we dont consider it a 'missing link' but rather a normal and unremarkable place along a color spectrum.


Did green evolve into blue, or vice versa?



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17 May 2010, 6:50 am

CaptainTrips222 wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
When will they find the missing link between blue eyes and green eyes?

That makes as much sense as a missing link between apes and humans.


Hint: Common ancestor.

ruveyn


No, I am pointing out that people exist that have blue-green eyes, but we dont consider it a 'missing link' but rather a normal and unremarkable place along a color spectrum.


Did green evolve into blue, or vice versa?


Neither.

Blue is a lack of pigmentation. There are at least 3 genes responsible for eye color and they each express themselves to partial degrees in all people. So blue is a lack of two types. If all three types are absent you get albinism. Hair and skin are similar, 3 genes each. Thats why human skin has three components, red, yellow and brown, various amounts of each describe the varieties of people.

Blue is believed to have come first in Europeans and I think green is the lesser expression of one. With a partial expression you get hazel eyes.

And I believe that its possible to have enhanced expression of pigmentation, which is seen in people with almost black eyes. They must have interesting genes.

Inventor mentioned something about neandertals having gold eyes, and I knew a lady that seemed to. Her eyes were not green, hazel or brown, but almost a blonde, like ripe wheat.


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17 May 2010, 8:57 pm

150 lbs of ape-man with a light BBQ rub rotisseried for 8 hours over a 180 degree bed of smoky hickory coals. MMMmmmmm... ape man.. :chef:

If only one was found I think we should try to clone it and bring the species back. The guy in the Geico commercials would be out of a job.