Evolution: a different view (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, May 11, 2015, 16:53 (3267 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: It does not prove that exaptations, including the lowered larynx, hung around unused etc. (see above), and that was the claim that sprouted this whole branch of the discussion between you and me.-DAVID: I cannot find them but I have put in here somewhere quotes that said both 'used' and 'unused' anatomic parts. I can't find them now. I'm still sticking with my interpretation and Tattersall's.-
You quoted them on 2 May at 21.50, but every example we have discussed - feathers, limbs, the larynx, digestive systems - makes nonsense of the claim that they were unused for (hundreds of) thousands of years, which is something no-one can possibly know! You have made it clear anyway that not even Tattersall goes as far as you. That doesn't mean you're wrong, of course, but I don't like to think of you getting lonely in your inapt exaltation of the exaptation as promising proof of preprogramming!