Liev's Postpostulate

Jeff Wilson · 11 May 2002, 04:58 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: re: (urth) Liev's Postpostulate
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:58:37 -0500
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>      From:=20
>           "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Ellis" <LittleSense at necronomicon.co.uk>
>=20
> > Sorry to seem at loggerheads with you again, Adam, but a few quibbles
> spring
> > immediately to mind:
> >
> > If Victor thinks he is descended from French settlers gone native, why,
> when
> > he thinks no one is reading what he writes any more, does he cite Dollo=
's
> > Law as the reason for his bad penmanship?
>=20
>=20
> Note, Dollo's law is about degeneration: the way an evolutionary talent,
> once lost, is never regained.
>=20
> This tells us something Victor at any rate believes.
>=20
> The abos once had human manual dexterity and then lost it.   They lost it
> *genetically* - for some unknown reason - in the same way they gained the=
ir
> odd talents of mimicry.
>=20
> Possibly they were an ancient human colony or abductee group that went
> through a evolutionary bottleneck.   Or possibly Victor merely believes
> this.

But Dollo's law is crap; it's violated by marine mammals, and moths that
alight on trees in once-polluted areas.

--=20
Jeff Wilson
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