Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: though teleosts include more than half of all species of vertebrates Why should humans appear at the end of all sequences? Our order of primates ancient among mammals and many other successful lineages arose later than we did We will not smash Freud's pedestal and complete Darwin's revolution until we find, grasp and accept another way of drawing life's history J.B.S. Haldane proclaimed nature "queerer than we can suppose but these limits may only be socially imposed conceptual locks rather then inherent restrictions of our neurology New icons might break the locks. Trees or rather copiously and luxuriantly branching bushes rather than ladders and sequences hold the key to this conceptual transition We must learn to depict the full range Qf variation, not just our parochial perception of t ...