Twinblue writes:

>Neoteny is an obvious fact of life in dogs.
>The Russians seem to have proven its a posssible developement in their fox
>experiment. As to whether humans exibit it in any amount... Well that is a
>good
>way to start an argument er... I mean a discussion. 

Until perhaps you look at the evidence. The following link will take you an
image of a chimpanzee infant:

   http://www.serpentfd.org/graphics/intro-apebaby.jpg

The second image will show you a chimp adult:

   http://www.serpentfd.org/graphics/intro-apeadult.jpg

These pictures are from Gould's "Ontogeny and Phylogeny", p. 355.
A young chimp
looks an awful lot like an old man, and that by itself is rather compelling
evidence for neoteny in humans.

Wirt Atmar
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