Hey, hey, you're a monkey! (or proto-hominid...)

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The insert to today's paper is an annoying little "American Profile" thing, which I have never really warmed up to...but like "Family Circus", I can't help but read it.

Anyway, today's had a question about Micky Dolenz, formerly of the Monkees. Seems he has written a childrens' book, Gakky Two-Feet, about the very first bipedal hominid. From the article:
Micky Dolenz said:
I'm a big fan of anthropology and was reading about hominids evolving from walking on four feet to two feet. I thought, "Wouldn't it be interesting to fictionalize that moment?" It's about this little creature who's different, with the moral being that it's OK to be different--because one day it could come in handy.
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From Publisher's Weekly:
The hero, a "fuzzy little fellow" named Gak, lives in Africa five million years ago. For reasons he can't explain, he alone among his spaghetti-limbed clan has chosen a bipedal lifestyle, though it earns him the sobriquet, "Gakky Two-Feet." Kids will love his mother's calm acceptance of his "difference," and that she picks fat, juicy bugs out of his sienna-hued fur-and eats them. Predictably, Gakky's idiosyncrasy proves valuable, and the story then becomes a familiar one in which Gak saves the day.
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I really hope it is a good story...
 
* bangs head against wall *

But ... there was no such moment. How could there be?

Many apes and some monkeys are capable of bipedalism.

There was no first bipedal homind. I guess, logically, there must have been a first homind who never knuckle-walked after infancy, but his bipedalism would not have made him stand out.

Gah!
 
Dr Adequate said:
* bangs head against wall *

But ... there was no such moment. How could there be?

Many apes and some monkeys are capable of bipedalism.

There was no first bipedal homind. I guess, logically, there must have been a first homind who never knuckle-walked after infancy, but his bipedalism would not have made him stand out.

Gah!
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You mean that former boyband members aren't the most reliable sources for scientific information? :jaw-dropp
Should I stop asking Jason Orange to explain quantum mechanics to me then? :p
 
Dr Adequate said:
* bangs head against wall *

But ... there was no such moment. How could there be?

Many apes and some monkeys are capable of bipedalism.

There was no first bipedal homind. I guess, logically, there must have been a first homind who never knuckle-walked after infancy, but his bipedalism would not have made him stand out.

Gah!
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Tricky. "Just-so" stories have always been a part of literature and do make good tales for kids. Maybe it's the current climate that makes us a bit touchy and desirous for scientific exactitude.

Next, you're going to be telling me that dilithium crystals can't power a warp engine. As if!
 
Dr Adequate said:
* bangs head against wall *

But ... there was no such moment. How could there be?

Many apes and some monkeys are capable of bipedalism.

There was no first bipedal homind. I guess, logically, there must have been a first homind who never knuckle-walked after infancy, but his bipedalism would not have made him stand out.

Gah!
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[No... can't.....stop.... myself....]

Do you like Kipling?


[Ahhhhhhh!]
 
I must point out that before we start arguing the toss about the "first" allegorical bipedal hominid that 5 million years ago apes did not call each other "Gakky two-feet" either.

Interestingly, I see that:
People who bought this book also bought:
•Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise Glenn Murray, Elizabeth Gundy, Audrey Colman (Illustrator)
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Oh, you have to love those have you stopped beating your wife questions. So full of intellectual rigor.
 
hammegk said:
Your favorite fable hasn't made it 200 years yet. Think it will?
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And computers have only been around for about 60 years, I wonder if they're gonna last?

Horseless carriages have only existed for 100 years, when do you think we'll be back to using oxen?

The internet? That thing won't last a decade, trust me, I know.
 
There is a chimp that allegedly can play poker and another one who supposedly sold a script to Hollywood.
 
It's ironic, he's obviously a supporter of evolution, but it's views like this that opponents latch onto to make evolution look silly. Maybe the best way to squash ID would be to better educate those who are already "on our side" rather then trying to convert.
 

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