What is a sphinx? « Seeds Aside

seedsaside, on April 10th, 2008 at 1:30 am Said:

Okay, I fixed the typo, I really didn’t mean sphynx…
Christopher Taylor, on April 10th, 2008 at 8:14 am Said:

Sphinx is a genus of hawkmoths - the fast-flying ones with the narrow wings that hover hummingbird-like in front of flowers.
seedsaside, on April 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pm Said:

And “evolutionary sphinxes”? :-)
I guess this might be the birth of yet another “framing the expression” event in evolutionary theory just like the “missing links”, so I keep asking…

PS: BTW, the wikipedia page about sphinxes has an interesting story about the predictions made by Darwin and Wallace about a pollinating sphinx, with regard to the expected size of its proboscis…
So what are evolutionary sphinxes? « Seeds Aside, on April 16th, 2008 at 1:08 am Said:

[...] and it appears that mosses were qualified by a bryophyte systematicist as early as in 1972 as evolutionary sphinxes. Well, at least we’re not left completely out of touch, since these plantee-evo-mythic beasts [...]
seedsaside, on April 16th, 2008 at 1:35 am Said:

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