<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:15 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Maybe you are making an argument for the opposable thumb.   bill w</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">If a species had an opposable thumb <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(</span>or something like it<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</span> then <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">there</span> would be evolutionary pressure <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">for it </span>to get smarter<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> but if it was <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">already </span>smart but had no opposable thumb then there would be no evolutionary pressure to evolve one.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  Therfore the thumb must have evolved for other reasons and</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> the big brain</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">must have come</span> afterwards<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div>
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