Comments on: Consider the Lowly Bird https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Mankel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/#comment-534194 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:31:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/#comment-534194 Is the human species the one who has developed the possibility to have a more complex view or representation of its environment?

If it is so, you only have to rephrase: if we “choose” to measure the evolutionary process on earth through the lenses of the complexity and variety of responses to the environment, the human species could be “probably” the “crown” of evolution.

The fact that this way of looking at the evolutionary process is self-serving doesn’t preclude its reality.

But, maybe I am wrong?

]]> By: Mike Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/#comment-534193 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:09:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/#comment-534193 Speaking of remaining static, I had a creationist ask me one time if there were any forms of life that had stopped evolving. “Yes,” I told him, “The extinct ones.”

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/#comment-534192 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:00:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/14/consider-the-lowly-bird/#comment-534192 Many people, including Charles Darwin, have fallen for the fallacy that man is the ‘progress’ of evolution. Any branch of the tree of life changes when under pressure. This includes almost all branches. Very few, if any, remain static.

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