Peter Teske and Luciano Beheregaray of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have just solved one of nature's most enduring mysteries: how seahorses evolved to swim standing up ...
Seagrasses, which thrive in shallow water, spread rapidly through these newly formed environments. The researchers think that the ancestors of modern seahorses followed.
Horizontally swimming fish living in seagrass beds don't blend into the environment well and are easily picked off by predators.
A solution seems to have evolved in seahorse ancestors: the upright body shape, which enables seahorses to seamlessly blend in with surrounding seagrass.
(Photo: Robert Sisson / NGS)
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.
Pretty much the same way that man evolved to pee standing up.
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.
Martin Geerts