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proves the ex act op po site, and no thro pol o gy was in its in fan cy, was
such de vel op ment ev er took place in very in ter est ing. According to
East Africa. 250 The plants ob served in Klaatsch, hom i nid apes al so at tempt ed
the re gion have re mained un - to be come hu man, but theirs was ‘an
un for tu nate en deav our.' They were
changed for mil lions of years. In
un a ble to rise up in the proc ess of ev o -
short, the tran si tion from jun gle to
lu tion, and with drew in to the ‘pro tec -
the open plains nev er hap pened.
tive dark ness of the jun gles.' But then
Even when con sid ered in log i cal
the ques tion of ‘Why were apes un suc -
terms, the the o ry in ques tion about
cess ful?' comes to mind. 251
the or i gin of bi ped a lism is un ac cept -
There were a great many oth er
a ble. In the event of trees dis ap pear -
ques tions apart from "Why were
ing, the most nat u ral course would
apes un suc cess ful?", and they are all
be for apes to mi grate to an oth er re -
un ans wered
gion, or be wiped out with the elim -
i na tion of their nat u ral hab i tat.
There is no ba sis for the the o ry that
TRANSITION FROM LAND
mon keys adapt ed to liv ing on the
TO AIR MYTH, THE
ground.
Since ev o lu tion ists be lieve that
Uluğ Nutku, who holds ev o lu -
birds evolved in some way, they
tion ist views, de scribes why the ac -
claim that they are de scend ed from
count based on the shrink ing of the
rep tiles. One of the the o ries they
jun gles is in suf fi cient:
pro pose to ac count for the or i gin of
It may be sug gest ed that the shrink ing
flight is that rep tiles de vel oped
of the jun gles was the fac tor that in i ti -
wings while at tempt ing to catch
at ed the phe nom e non of hu man i za tion.
This is a pal ae on to log i cal fact. flies. In fact, how e ver, birds have to -
Napier's the sis is com pat i ble with this, tal ly dif fer ent struc tures from those
but it leaves out the fol low ing ques - in ter res tri al an i mals. No phys i cal
tion: While one an i mal spe cies was mech a nism can be ac count ed for in
leav ing the jun gle and set ting out on terms of grad u al ev o lu tion.
the path to be com ing hu man, why did First of all, the flaw less struc ture
its clos est rel a tive, the ape, re main in of the wing, the ev o lu tion a ry main
the jun gle? The less spec u la tion, the
dis tin guish ing fea ture of birds, rep -
hard er it is to find an an swer. The an -
re sents a ma jor di lem ma for ev o lu -
swer giv en by Hermann Klaatsch, in
tion ists. The ques tion of how the
the ear ly part of the cen tu ry, when an -
wing could have de vel oped as the
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