Robin Duborget wrote:Good luck for trying to explain something in theorical physics to me, I'm pretty sure that
I will not understand a word, even if you take more than two step
No, you would, I'd do my best in a case like that, believe me. But by "
rushing to an answer in one step, maybe two,
but not many more than that" I meant the tendency of biologists to try to explain things too simply - not always, not
all of them, of course - but somehow I got the impression that they seem to avoid "too long" chains of reasoning, just
following the idea that "if it isn't short and simple enough, it's most probably wrong..." I dont agree - things in nature
can be immensely complicated, why should they be "simple enough", just to suit our "taste" (or intelectual laziness?)...
Nobody, no g/God or whoever, has ever promised us a SIMPLE universe... simple enough for us to understand it, let
alone in just a step or two of our reasoning...
Of course the biologists are not the only "culprits", that was just an example, so, please, take no offence, any of you.
I could discuss hours and hours about evolution and speciation but ... in french ! Maybe if you show
what you don't understand, I can clearly explain this fact ...
No need, I've read (and hopefully understood) enough of biology. Regarding your proposal,
yes (but not in French, sorry),
somewhere
in vivo, over a beer, or whatever you drink. Peace on you! Actually, even here, without a drink, just jump in.
We've both heard and seen too little of you so far, which is (obviously) a pity...
Back to snakes, either "nonvenomous" or "semi-venomous" (rear-fanged). In Croatia we have two "semi-venomous" species,
Malpolon insignitus and
Telescopus fallax. While any "normal" malpolon in his right mind would try to "tear you to pieces",
a "normal" telescopus won't even try to bite you once... a most placid and cooperative snake. OK, a malpolon is quite big,
while a telescopus is (comparatively) small, but
IF they both really wanted to use their venomous rear fangs for defence,
they should both do the same - bite and CHEW, for quite a while... Yet they obviously don't - both of them, I would say.
My (certainly oversimplified!) attempt of an "explanation in one step": It seems they just
don't count on using their
venomfor defence,
either of them. Malpolon uses it's sheer size, vigour & strength, but what about telescopus...? A different
species - a different strategy? But then, what does a telescopus count on regarding defence, being so much smaller than
its so "aggressive" cousin? No idea. (BTW, are they really "cousins" at all - having rear fangs doesn't necessarily have to
mean close cousinship - or does it? I don't now, maybe someone around here does... )