?Backward evolution? spawns ape-like people

[Viper GTS]

You guys are missing the most important sentence in all of this:

The siblings' parents are closely related and have had 19 children in all.

If I were fvcking my sister our children might have tails.

Viper GTS

 

[0roo0roo]

nature is weird...hairy lobsters
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shorts...mages/hairy-lobster-smaller-795227.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_sc/france_new_crustacean

 

[Goosemaster]

That looks pretty fake, regardless of its validity.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

They couldve at least dressed them up to be a little more convincing.

 

[Throwmeabone]

If evolution is about survival of the fittest, then backwards evolution can not occur. It's supposed to bring about changes that are beneficial, so why would it revert back to walking on all fours when everyone else walks on two legs.

 

[Gamer X]

Yes they look fake,otherwise

 

[Theb]

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
If evolution is about survival of the fittest, then backwards evolution can not occur. It's supposed to bring about changes that are beneficial, so why would it revert back to walking on all fours when everyone else walks on two legs.

There are two main components to evolution. Mutation and survival of the fittest. This is an example of a mutation. Mutation is not always beneficial.



Are some of you guys really suggesting that the BBC and National Geographic were tricked by a family that pretended to walk on all fours

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
If evolution is about survival of the fittest, then backwards evolution can not occur. It's supposed to bring about changes that are beneficial, so why would it revert back to walking on all fours when everyone else walks on two legs.

bad changes happen in survival of the fittest, they just don't err win

its not a matter of evolving or devolving but seeing how genetics works.

 

[Number1]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Number1
The web site claims that their "scientist" are producing chickens with teeth.

What a bunch of bull.
Why are you spreading this kind of sh*t

thats not bull...

I have yet to see one. Reversed evolved chickens with theet?
Reverse evolution my *ss.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/221/3
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shorts...tant-chicken-with-alligator-teeth.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060222/sc_space/surprisechickenscangrowteeth

OK I was wrong. Your links are a lot more credible then the one at the begining of this tread.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
If evolution is about survival of the fittest, then backwards evolution can not occur. It's supposed to bring about changes that are beneficial, so why would it revert back to walking on all fours when everyone else walks on two legs.

You need to think on a long term scale for the concept to work. They carry a non-beneficial mutation(just like having down's), but does downs take over, and regular people go extinct, causing us to evolve retarded? Nope. Thus we did not de-evolve in anyway.
Thus saying, the quadrepeds in the news story did not evolve, they merely went through a genetic mutation.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Number1
The web site claims that their "scientist" are producing chickens with teeth.

What a bunch of bull.
Why are you spreading this kind of sh*t

thats not bull...

I have yet to see one. Reversed evolved chickens with theet?
Reverse evolution my *ss.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/221/3
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shorts...tant-chicken-with-alligator-teeth.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060222/sc_space/surprisechickenscangrowteeth

OK I was wrong. Your links are a lot more credible then the one at the begining of this tread.

It's not hard to do this stuff at all. Scientists can easily give someone a third leg, or give someone gills, etc, after they discovered this genetic toolbox called homoeotic genes. Look up hox genes and evo-devo.

 

[aidanjm]

surprised at the level of disbelief in this thread.

 

[Bumrush99]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
surprised at the level of disbelief in this thread.

A lot of religous people believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and that people in the world suffer because some chick ate an apple. It shouldn't suprise you.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
surprised at the level of disbelief in this thread.

How are the ants?

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: aidanjm
surprised at the level of disbelief in this thread.

How are the ants?

happy

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
If evolution is about survival of the fittest, then backwards evolution can not occur. It's supposed to bring about changes that are beneficial, so why would it revert back to walking on all fours when everyone else walks on two legs.

You need to think on a long term scale for the concept to work. They carry a non-beneficial mutation(just like having down's), but does downs take over, and regular people go extinct, causing us to evolve retarded? Nope. Thus we did not de-evolve in anyway.
Thus saying, the quadrepeds in the news story did not evolve, they merely went through a genetic mutation.

If some such mutation had a signficant survival advantage, then over time the trait in the mutation could become more and more common, and eventually dominant. THAT would be "evolution" in action.

In this case, I don't see how this would be a survival advantage, and don't see this becoming a dominant trait in humanity at large.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I'm suprised what little came of this thread. I expected a lot more throat tearing over such bs

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: JDrake
Someone translate that video

I'll when I get home.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

The siblings live with their parents and five other brothers and sisters. They were born with what looks like a form of brain damage.

MRI scans seem to show that they have a form of cerebellar ataxia, which affects balance and coordination.

Explanation in the article.

This is more likely the explanation:

The siblings' parents are closely related and have had 19 children in all.

Incest is not a good thing people.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Turkish

Originally posted by: JDrake
Someone translate that video

I'll when I get home.

The video is not in Turkish, its in Kurdish... so I have no clue... as soon as I opened the video and saw the women and the setting, knew it was from southeast Turkey, where the population majority is Kurdish.