How Seahorses Evolved To Swim Standing Up

I have always been dumbfounded by how researchers profess to know how many things have come to be.

I mean without OBSERVING something first hand you can’t really KNOW how something developped.

Sure you can throw all matter of complexity, theory, hypothesis, etc. at something and say it’s true when you are all done lookingat the data as you see it, but you’d just be kidding yourself if you said you knew it came to be this way or that because of whatever factors you decided to look at…

But to their credit at least they throw in words like think, may, could, etc. That way in ten years when their idea look like total crap they can never take less responsibility for their crap ideas.

that’s a bunch of bull crap.

No, VonSkippy, man pees standing up because it’s so much fun.

Timm, get a life. The hypotheses of scientific thought are vastly preferable to blindly accepting the word of a cult leader with preposterous ideas and no basis in fact. For example, Jim Jones and L Ron Hubbard.

According to the authors swimming upright was favoured by natural selection. As a proponent of evolution by natural experiment I believe that the enormous expansion of sea grass habitats allowed the ancestors of the sea horses to move into a new habitat in which was little or no selection pressure. That means that the upright position evolved because of a lack of selection, natural or otherwise.
Martin Geerts