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Old 10-24-2002, 02:00 PM   #21
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In that case, humans descended from a population of an ape-like ancestor that:
  • Lost the ability to produce individuals with excessive hair on its body.
  • Lost the ability to produce individuals with non-locking knees and non-upright walking ability.
  • Lost the ability to produce individuals with small brains.

Isn't creato-logic fun?

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Scratch that last one. You can guess what I'm talking about...
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Don't forget:

- Lost the ability to grasp things with their feet.

- Lost the ability to drink and breathe at the same time due to a different positioning of the larynx, thereby losing the ability to not be able to speak and losing the ability to not choke on their food when swallowing.</strong>
And land mammals lost the ability to breath under water.
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So essentially, we poor, deficient humans lost the important ability to be happy little single cells, frolicing merrily in the primordial soup.

Loss of information has reduced us to the horrible things we are today.
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Don't forget that reproduction is the "loss of the ability of being the parents."
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