Re: paleonet Homo sapiens / H. erectus introgression

["Nikolaus Malchus" <n.malchus@xxxxxxx>]

:-) 

Glad, you didn't.

Niko

> Couldn't resist....
> 
> Rare Albino Crow Draws Crowds
> http://www.nbc30.com/news/2842148/detail.html
> 
> Racial crow joke:
> Q: What is an albino crow called?
> A: Caw-casian
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> > and absence of evidence is not
> > evidence of absence.
> > K.Burton
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> Of course not.
> A nice conundrum, Popper gave an answer to. Perhaps it is not the only
> possible one.
> The problem is that at least in Paleontology and many other sciences we
> will
> never be able to provide 100% evidence of absence (except, perhaps, for
> morphological characters, but even there is much space for discussion), an
> inherent problem of inductive logic.
> But, we can develop a hypothesis using "absence of evidence", e.g. the
> well
> known "All ravens are black", i.e. other-coloured ravens never lived,
> don't
> live today and will never live (a universal statement).
> Such hypotheses can be tested at least potentially (indispensible for a
> scientific hypothesis) by showing that it is false (if a non-black raven
> shows up).
> 
> K.R. Popper, The logic of scientific discovery, 1992, Routledge (1st
> published 1959 by Hutchinson Education).
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> Cheers,
> 
> Niko
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