Need a new pet? Try an axolotl!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
A less drastic example is the adult human skull, which is, when you compensate for raw size, more similar to juvenile than adult chimp skulls.

Are you sure? As far as I can tell, a human baby's skull size in relation to its body size to a human adult's skull size in relation to its body size is comparable to chimps. IOW, our heads are overall bigger.

[DaShi]

*snicker*

[Dinner]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
It's freaky looking. The website said that this critter is a "backwards step in evolution" how does that make any sense? How does evolution work in reverse?

That's a 19th century way of looking at things. Back then people thought of themselves as the height of evolution and everything was a progression to them. The problem is evolution doesn't work that way. Instead all that matters is spreading your genes.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Odin
I read that if you gave an axolotl Thyroxin hormone it will metamorphosize into an "adult" body.

That'd be correct - there's a section about it the page I linked, under "biology".

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Are you sure? As far as I can tell, a human baby's skull size in relation to its body size to a human adult's skull size in relation to its body size is comparable to chimps. IOW, our heads are overall bigger.

Yep, I'm sure, and I'm not refering to size, but morphology. As a chimp matures, it develops various skull characteristica such as a forward-jutting face, browridges, and a backset skull-spine connection, whereas the human skull keeps closer to the condition of human and chimp infants.

[realpolitic]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That's a 19th century way of looking at things. Back then people thought of themselves as the height of evolution and everything was a progression to them. The problem is evolution doesn't work that way. Instead all that matters is spreading your genes.

Actually, it counts for more if you spread your genes with Heather Lockler.

[Elok]

I don't think there'll be much chance of that if you don't spell her name (Locklear) correctly.

[self biased]

and also considering she's been married to richie samboura for the last twenty years or so.

[alva]

(Neoteny, in case you don't know, is the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood -

Pfffff, what's so special about that, just about every human male has this.