Except if I'm not mistaken there is no evidence for that common ancestor. The so-called missing link?
So what caused this split? How exactly does this split work? Does this mean A1 and A2 then both happened to travel miles apart from one another and never, ever had contact again for no reason? Wouldn't you want to stay close to someone whom is basically like a relative?
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There might have been earth-quakes, famines, landslides, break-off of peninsulae. There might have been warring between different tribes, youngsters who wanted to explore new horizons, people ostracized for grave violations of rules.
There might indeed have been repeated contacts and mixing of genes during hundreds of years after the "split". Speciation takes hundreds of thousands or millions of years, ya know. Have you stayed close to all the relatives of your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Hectic?
There are several missing links found, but each missing link found just creates two more missing links to be found.
Wouldn't you want to stay close to someone whom is basically like a relative?
With this logic neither the Americas nor Australia would have been colonized
Hell, even Greenland and Iceland would be empty!
Wouldn't you want to stay close to someone whom is basically like a relative?
Wouldn't you want to stay close to someone whom is basically a relative?
Wouldn't you want to stay close to someone whom is a relative?
Wouldn't you want to stay 'close' to a relative?
Nope
Well, Futurama explains why the whole "Missing Link" thing is a bullshit argument. A bridge between the two is provided? Where's the missing link for that one? And then the one for that one. And that one, And so on and so forth until they find that one tiny crack to wedge into.
“Except if I'm not mistaken there is no evidence for that common ancestor. The so-called missing link?”
If nothing else, all the common traits are evidence for that common ancestor. There’s plenty of evidence that drives scientists to predict one will turn up. Eventually.
“So what caused this split?”
Isolation and separate development.
“How exactly does this split work?”
Isolation. The two gene poools stop sharing genes. One evolves and the other doesn’t go the same direction.
“Does this mean A1 and A2 then both happened to travel miles apart from one another and never, ever had contact again for no reason?”
Why you throw ‘for no reason’ in there? I mean, that’s what isolation IS. Do you English?
"Wouldn't you want to stay close to someone whom is basically like a relative?”
The isolation may not have been voluntary. Also, if there were too many of ‘us’ for the resources, then, no, we wouldn’t want to stay close.
And, what, do you not have relatives you’d just as soon not see again?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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