re: #11 Obdicut

What really annoys me is that one of my earliest memories as a kid is going to a museum and seeing a model of Australopithecus.

They were a species of hominid that did go extinct. They could be called ‘half human, half monkey”. So there’s one.

So no, evolution didn’t just ‘stop’. But humans aren’t an endpoint— we’re just one species out of many. And 99.5% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. Including many ‘half-human, half-monkey’ species.

I’d like for our particular species not to go extinct, at least not until we build some AIs. People like Beck, the Koch brothers, the current GOP leadership, and the rest of the anti-science brigade are literally endangering the future of the human species.

I remember when the ‘Ardi’ fossil was getting a lot of press, someone over at Hot Air huffed, “Well, I’ll believe it when they show us THE MISSING LINK. Where’s the fossil halfway between human and ape?”

Someone else commented, “Have you seen the picture of this one? It looks about like that to me.”

He was disregarded.