The Amazon is possibly the most diverse ecosystem on earth, with animals ranging from snakes to apes, from all varieties of insects to birds and spiders.
How can all these have a common ancestor?
I would make sense if there were simply diverse arrays of birds and such, and perhaps diverse insects, but if these creatures evolved, then they really shouldn't share the same niche.
Unless we're to believe birds and spiders have a common ancestor, or snakes and monkeys in the Amazon branched from the same ancestors.
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So close! Just a little more and you'll realize that they DON'T all have a common ancestor, but some do. Just like humans, while sharing an ancestor with apes, don't share an ancestor with...say...an oak tree.
"The Amazon is possibly the most diverse ecosystem on earth, with animals ranging from snakes to apes, from all varieties of insects to birds and spiders."Are there actually apes in South America? Monkeys, yes, but apes?
Certainly not "all" varities of anything are found in any one eco-system.
"How can all these have a common ancestor?"
Through millions of years of evolution. Just because your below average intellect can't fathom it does not mean it is not true.
"I would make sense if there were simply diverse arrays of birds and such, and perhaps diverse insects, but if these creatures evolved, then they really shouldn't share the same niche."
First, YOU would not make sense under conditions.
Second, assuming you mean "it," many creatures in the same eco-system fill the same or very nearly the same niches. So what? Owls eats mice, wolves eat mice, snakes eat mice. More than one species can evolve to fill the same niche as long as there are enough resources in that niche.
"Unless we're to believe birds and spiders have a common ancestor, or snakes and monkeys in the Amazon branched from the same ancestors."
That is true, birds, spiders, snakes and monkeys all share a common ancestry. You may have heard that humans and chimpanzees share 96%+ of their DNA. I'm sure you'll find it even more shocking to learn that you share about 50% of you DNA with the nearest tree. ALL, yes, ALL life on earth shares common ancestry if you go back far enough.
Actually, Nezu Chiza, the prevailing theory is that all living things, even humans and oak trees, share a common ancestor, if you go back far enough.
What apes are native to the Amazon? Apart from humans, that is.
Five characteristics of all life:
Well, everyone's already refuted this, so I won't bother. But, so that no one will be alarmed, that loud banging sound you hear is just me hitting my head against the wall. I figure it's less painful and more productive than actually trying to explain anything to shinbits.
The Amazon is possibly the most diverse ecosystem on earth, with animals ranging from snakes to apes, from all varieties of insects to birds and spiders. image
How can all these have a common ancestor?
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I would make sense if there were simply diverse arrays of birds and such, and perhaps diverse insects...
Uh oh! He's blackmailing us! He's threatened that he refuses to make sense until we kill everyone in the Amazon except the birds and insects!
...but if these creatures evolved, then they really shouldn't share the same niche.
Define "niche." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Unless we're to believe birds and spiders have a common ancestor, or snakes and monkeys in the Amazon branched from the same ancestors.
All life on Earth shares a common ancestor if you're willing to look back far enough.
Aww, cute, he thinks he knows what niche means. Actually, Amazon animals are extremely specialized. They all fill a single niche which happens to be extremely narrow.
frankly? they DON'T all have a common ancestor.
well, technically they do, if you wanna get really technical and go back far enough. life began with the first self-replicating molecules. all other life is descended from that.
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