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I know evolution is a really, really slow process but I imagine that a generation for most species of fly is, by our standards, really, really short.
How many more generations of flies before they understand transparent glass windows?
Thickos.
How many more generations of flies before they understand transparent glass windows?
Thickos.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If a fly generation is really, really short, flies who fly into windows won't live long enough to pass on their knowledge about glass windows to other flies. And the same goes for flies who observe their friends and relations fly into windows; they aren't around long enough to pass their learning on.
IMO no early species of hominid are left because as soon as one lot got lucky and developed greater intelligence they would have been able to out-expand, out-compete and even where thought necessary commit genocide on other species who were in their way. Tribes tend to fight for land and other resources, there can be only one, eventually; unless they develop sufficiently to respect other species and live in peaceful coexistence.
// How many more generations of flies before they understand transparent glass windows? //
why not go the whole hog and ask how many generations of flies before one of them reinvents Einsteins equations ?
The diversion onto hominids is I think unhelful. The first person to describe a hominid was Raymond Dart
https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Raymo nd_Dart
oops sorry it was a hominin, and he said they (australopithecus) died out because of WAR - very unpopular and now discounted
two other interesting things about Dart
HE is the one that Arthur Keith said " Dart was right and I was wrong". Keith had supported and been gulled by Piltdown Man.
and
secondly - Dart was asked why his lab notes showed australopithecus and homo co-existed and one didnt evolve into the other - so why didnt he print / publish these results.
Dart replied: because we thought no one would believe us.
sorry I divert you from Drosophila.....
why not go the whole hog and ask how many generations of flies before one of them reinvents Einsteins equations ?
The diversion onto hominids is I think unhelful. The first person to describe a hominid was Raymond Dart
https:/
oops sorry it was a hominin, and he said they (australopithecus) died out because of WAR - very unpopular and now discounted
two other interesting things about Dart
HE is the one that Arthur Keith said " Dart was right and I was wrong". Keith had supported and been gulled by Piltdown Man.
and
secondly - Dart was asked why his lab notes showed australopithecus and homo co-existed and one didnt evolve into the other - so why didnt he print / publish these results.
Dart replied: because we thought no one would believe us.
sorry I divert you from Drosophila.....