Answer: What Creature Evolves from No Feet to Four Feet to Two Feet?

In summary, the conversation discusses the riddle of what moves without feet in the morning, travels on four feet in the afternoon, and walks on two feet at night. The answer is man, representing evolution from swimming organisms to quadrupedal animals to bipedal humans. The conversation also touches on the analogy to the Sphinx's riddle and the concept of time in relation to evolution.
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Loren Booda
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What moves without feet in the morning, travels on four feet in the afternoon,
and walks on two feet at night?

Answer: Man - in evolution from swimming organism to quadrupedal animals to bipedal people.
 
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Wait wasn't there a cane in there somewhere?
 
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That was the story of Cane and Able.
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Wait wasn't there a cane in there somewhere?
You are thinking of:
What walks on four feet in the morning, two at noon, and three in the afternoon.
 
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Loren Booda said:
What moves without feet in the morning, travels on four feet in the afternoon,
and walks on two feet at night?

Answer: Man - in evolution from swimming organism to quadrupedal animals to bipedal people.

What makes you think it's nighttime? With any luck it could be half past 7 on a sunny morning, and we'll be back to no-feet soon.
 
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This riddle is in analogy to that of the Sphinx - however, here it describes not a lifetime, but evolution over the eons.
 
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Phrak said:
What makes you think it's nighttime? With any luck it could be half past 7 on a sunny morning, and we'll be back to no-feet soon.

He's got a point. A man's lifetime is finite, like the day, but evolution over eons is not finite. Metaphorically, it could be only half past 7.

Or merely 12:01AM... :wink:
 

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