From: Katrina.Teibel@p0.f14.n346.z1.fidonet.org (Katrina Teibel)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.science
Subject: evolution
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 10:35:31 PDT
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Hi Rebeckah,
 
     I read your message about human evolution, and I have many of
the same questions as you.  When I first became interested in human
evolution, I was sure I was going to grow up, go to college, and
eventually discover lifes misteries.  I wanted to know what really
happened to our ancestors, and how we became living on Earth.  As
time progressed I developed other interests which stole my
curiosity from human evolution.
     During this time, however, I did a little research, and a lot
of thinking.  I pondered over the ways of life, and concluded
perhaps evolution actually occuered from ape to man.  I believe
that we evolved from some prehistoric creature.  The fossils are
evidence enough.  Though it is hard to emagine that we came from an
ape, I believe that we grew from a lesser species into the
intelligent being that we are today.  After all, everything must
start at the bottom.
     A favorite author of mine, though a fiction writer, has a good
idea of how the different species of our ancestors lived together,
and eventually evolved into what we are today.  Before Jean M. Auel
Began to write her series, she studied anthropology.  The first
book in her series, The Clan of the Cave Bear, is a story about the
older species versus the newer.  She portrays a corilation of two
different societies; thier beliefs and ways of culture.  I believe
there must have been a period of time between the diffent species. 
 
They did not evolve emediatly from one to the other.  Jean Auel
writes about this time, or how she feels it would have been like. 
 
I suggest reading her series not only becouse she has an idea of
how prehistory could have been socially, but becouse they are good
stories.  Try to keep in mind, though, she is only a fiction
writer, and her stories are just that-stories.
 
ps I wish you luck     I read your message about human evolution, and I have many of
the same questions as you.  When I first became interested in human
evolution, I was sure I was going to grow up, go to college, and
eventually discover lifes misteries.  I wanted to know what really
happened to our ancestors, and how we became living on Earth.  As
time progressed I developed other interests which stole my
curiosity from human evolution.
     During this time, however, I did a little research, and a lot
of thinking.  I pondered over the ways of life, and concluded
perhaps evolution actually occuered from ape to man.  I believe
that we evolved from some prehistoric creature.  The fossils are
evidence enough.  Though it is hard to emagine that we came from an
ape, I believe that we grew from a lesser species into the
intelligent being that we are today.  After all, everything must
start at the bottom.
     A favorite author of mine, though a fiction writer, has a good
idea of how the different species of our ancestors lived together,
and eventually evolved into what we are today.  Before Jean M. Auel
Began to write her series, she studied anthropology.  The first
book in her series, The Clan of the Cave Bear, is a story about the
older species versus the newer.  She portrays a corilation of two
different societies; thier beliefs and ways of culture.  I believe
there must have been a period of time between the diffent species. 
 
They did not evolve emediatly from one to the other.  Jean Auel
writes about this time, or how she feels it would have been like. 
 
I suggest reading her series not only becouse she has an idea of
how prehistory could have been socially, but becouse they are good
stories.  Try to keep in mind, though, she is only a fiction
writer, and her stories are just that-stories.
 
ps I wish you luck. 


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