(urth) interview questions

[Lee Berman]

>Tony Ellis:  Then there is Dollo's Law. VRT cites it as an explanation for why he
>cannot hold a pen properly. But Dollo's Law requires an organ to "degenerate through evolution"
> - not something that happens over night. Whether you believe him or not, he is saying 'my ancestors
>haven't used tools for millennia'.
 
 
Ah..MAYBE NOW I get what Tony is getting at. Maybe.  If there was a long ago crash of a human starship 
on Ste. Anne, those humans (or maybe single human?) were imitated by Shadows. After a long period 
with no further source material, those imitated humans degenerated into Shadow Children (shrinking
and losing their thumbs, becoming more shadow-like again I guess). Then when new waves of humans arrived, 
that's why Dollo's Law gets invoked. They have to re-establish the lost digit and its neural connections.
 
It is difficult but not impossible to re-establish because Dollo's Law is more imperative on Darwinian 
evolution than Lamarckian.
 
Sort of a blending of theories. Shadow Children USED to be close imitations of humans but degenerated
back to half-Shadows after a long while. I think I can hang with that.