Human evolving faster

[JTsyo]

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Seems with a larger population there are more variations in the gene pool. I wonder if humans will ever branch into a different species. Probbaly only if a population is isolated from the rest.

 

[Crono]

"For example, Africans have new genes providing resistance to malaria. In Europeans, there is a gene that makes them better able to digest milk as adults. In Asians, there is a gene that makes ear wax more dry."

Yay Asians!

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: Crono
"For example, Africans have new genes providing resistance to malaria. In Europeans, there is a gene that makes them better able to digest milk as adults. In Asians, there is a gene that makes ear wax more dry."

Yay Asians!

That's the author's way of down playing our outrageous intelligence

 

[AmpedSilence]

I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

 

[pontifex]

lol, whats the purpose of dry earwax?

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: pontifex
lol, whats the purpose of dry earwax?

Makes good lube?

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: intogamer

Originally posted by: pontifex
lol, whats the purpose of dry earwax?

Makes good lube?

Yeah, that would be the other way around...

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: pontifex
lol, whats the purpose of dry earwax?

Yeah! I mean, it would probably screw up my sculptures if it was dry.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: intogamer

Originally posted by: pontifex
lol, whats the purpose of dry earwax?

Makes good lube?

Yeah, that would be the other way around...

ouch. is he the same guy that uses paper towels to masturbate with?

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: pontifex
lol, whats the purpose of dry earwax?

Yeah! I mean, it would probably screw up my sculptures if it was dry.

:shocked::laugh:

 

[WildHorse]

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[gwrober]

Originally posted by: scott
soon you won't even have to knuckle-walk or pick bugs outta your fur, or scent-mark your territory

great. Good thing I just pissed around my fence. :thumbsup:

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

 

[IAteYourMother]

nm

 

[NaOH]

WE CAN FORM THE X-MEN SOON!

 

[Tweak155]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

And if they believe that God allowed/purposed these evolutions?

That is a pretty self centered statement.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

Are you calling me a creationist? I would be pretty insulted if that was the case!

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

It took 13 posts for the trolling brigade to get here?

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

It took 13 posts for the trolling brigade to get here?

ATOT: always alert for a situation worth scoffing at, imaginary or not.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

It took 13 posts for the trolling brigade to get here?

ATOT: always alert for a situation worth scoffing at, imaginary or not.

I blame them for our chunk of humanity devolving. Have you seen Idiocracy? Those people are the ones having 10 kids with in-vitro fertilization, not using protection because God wants them to "be fruitful and multiply", thereby reducing average intelligence, and then home schooling their kids.
It's like a powerful feedback loop for stupidity.

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
I would have though the exact opposite, considering that medicines now allow people that normally would not be allowed to reproduce, to reproduce; like in-vitro.

Though, maybe aren't evolving faster but maybe just differentiating.

Evolution isn't about changing for the better, but changing. Just because an genetic change does not provide an advantage or even provides a disadvantage does not mean it doesn't fall under evolution.

I wish Creationists would start believing that they aren't allowed to reap the benefits of the science they don't believe in.

It took 13 posts for the trolling brigade to get here?

ATOT: always alert for a situation worth scoffing at, imaginary or not.

I blame them for our chunk of humanity devolving. Have you seen Idiocracy? Those people are the ones having 10 kids with in-vitro fertilization, not using protection because God wants them to "be fruitful and multiply", thereby reducing average intelligence, and then home schooling their kids.
It's like a powerful feedback loop for stupidity.

What the hell do large families and home schooling have to do with "reducing the average intelligence" and stupidity? Close-mindedness is the source of idiocy not large families or home schooling, and I'd say there's just as much of that (close-mindedness) within the conventional schooling system as there is with the blindly faithful.

 

[Chiropteran]

Humans are devolving really. Instead of natural selection killing off the worst and letting the best reproduce, the worst are the ones reproducing in mass numbers while the better humans have fewer, if any, children. Idiocracy is the future.

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Humans are devolving really. Instead of natural selection killing off the worst and letting the best reproduce, the worst are the ones reproducing in mass numbers while the better humans have fewer, if any, children. Idiocracy is the future.

Idiocracy. . .awesome movie :thumbsup:


Dry earwax huh? How. . .underwhelming.

Get back to me when people start exhibiting traits like the characters on Heroes.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Originally posted by: JTsyo
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Seems with a larger population there are more variations in the gene pool. I wonder if humans will ever branch into a different species. Probbaly only if a population is isolated from the rest.

Larger populations are only part of the story. A greater magnitude of disconnect from the ancestral environment to which we're adapted (i.e. hunting & gathering in Africa to sedentary agriculturalism) plays a key role. More variation is meaningless unless something (selective pressures) brings it to higher frequencies in the population.