Re: Molecular Dating: The turd that won't go away

On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:37:47 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
<john.harshman@gmail.com>:

On 6/29/24 11:24 AM, Ernest Major wrote:

On 29/06/2024 15:48, John Harshman wrote:

Google gives me nothing in a search for "isolation is the engine of
evolution", unfortunately. You have to wonder why he posts if he's
that uninterested in being understood.

 
Apart from JTEM Google gives me a quotation from an ecotourism guide in
Costa Rica. I don't find it a particularly opaque phrase. If one was to
be more precise one might substitute diversity or cladogenesis for
evolution. In the light of recent mentions of the founder effect in
quoted posts JTEM might be referring to evolutionary innovation, which
is a somewhat more controversial claim.
 

The question is not what that sentence means but who is supposed to have
said it, i.e. the "good doctor".
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Mengele? Moreau? Kevorkian? So many possibilities...

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