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  • No that’s not what the judges ruled at all or how civil cases work.

    Civil cases do not set precedent in this way. Yes they can be used to support other cases, but in civil court each case is examined through it’s own merits.

    Even if it did work the way you suggested (it doesn’t but for fun), this ruling would only apply to the state of Ohio since it was ruled on by that state’s court. Meaning companies would then have to produce Ohio exclusive boneless wings with bones and distribute them only in Ohio. Which would be not only be expensive, but also ensure their customers stop buying their product.











  • Unfortunately that’s still not quite right.

    The individual was, potentially, “evolved”. But the population “reverted” back.

    Individuals cannot evolve, but more importantly there is no “reverting back” evolution moves in one direction. It’s the slow slow change in the genetics of an entire population.

    Additionally, rocks slides and evolution are not really comparable. As you said only one rock needs to fall to cause an event that has a definitive start and end. Evolution is an ongoing proccess that never ends and it is infinitely more complex than a rock slide. The issue is we as humans are attempting to categorize an ongoing never ending proccess.



  • Unfortunately no it does not mean that. At least according to the current science of taphonomy.

    Populations evolve, individuals do not. Individuals can have genetic mutations that improve their ability to reproduce which impacts evolution.

    Parents of one species cannot give birth to a new species. Sure their offspring may look closer to what we associate with one species or another, but those genetics are held within the parents and greater population. You can have an individual born that appeared strikingly like a modern human, but if their population hasn’t genetically changed enough their offspring go right back to looking just like any other precursor to modern humans.

    It’s messy and annoying. People love to have a definitive starting and ending point, but the world just doesn’t work that way. There’s are reason the start of a new species is given as an estimate that ranges tens of thousands to even sometimes hundreds of thousands years.

    Although there are lots of ongoing arguments on where we draw these lines because it is arbitrary to a degree. However, there is absolutely no acceptance that parents of one species can give birth to another. That just isn’t evolution.

    Now that’s the scientific answer. I think the more philosophical questions around what is human are much more interesting. Where should that line be drawn in our deep past? When is the psyche truly human?


  • So in my professional opinion I’d say no. I studied anthropology and work in Archaeology.

    Evolution just isn’t simply fast enough to do that. It’s a very very slow series of changes. There would never be a point that two homo erectus would have given birth to a modern human. Eventually some populations of homo erectus would change so much genetically and morphologically we would then arbitrarily classify them as human, but it would be on a population scale.

    So yeah there was never just 1 human.

    Honestly this demonstrates the flaws of how we try to arbitrarily classify species.