On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:47:41 -0400, BAR wrote:


Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

Yeah, but I think that is the fate of most species. It's the rare
species that endures. In the evolutionary scale of things, primates are
relatively recent. They still have a long way to go, before it can be
said they endured.

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:47:41 -0400, BAR wrote:


Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

Yeah, but I think that is the fate of most species. It's the rare
species that endures. In the evolutionary scale of things, primates are
relatively recent. They still have a long way to go, before it can be
said they endured.

As with most things, if you will, on Earth a few million years is not
much time.

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:57:20 -0400, BAR wrote:


As with most things, if you will, on Earth a few million years is not
much time.

That's true. Then, there's the coelacanth, 350 million years, and
counting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth