Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Voodoo
Just because scientists don't think they should talk about something, it's not going to stop the press.
Scientists are fond of running the evolutionary clock backward, using DNA analysis and the fossil record to figure out when our ancestors stood erect and split off from the rest of the primate evolutionary tree.Yet somehow they manage to put together a very long article on the question. I can't figure out what the big deal is -- any mild science fiction fan knows what humanity will look like in the distant future who needs evolutionary voodo?
But the clock is running forward as well. So where are humans headed?
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says it's the question he's most often asked, and "a question that any prudent evolutionist will evade."
