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#41
11-06-2005, 11:22 PM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
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I thought I read somewhere that on average, people are taller now than they were even just a few hundred years ago. If true, wouldn't this be some sort of evolutionary process? [/ QUOTE ] This is a nutritional effect. 
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#42
11-07-2005, 01:50 AM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
Ed Miller has proved that human evolution is still ongoing. He recently evolved from a bachelor into a married man.
Q.E.D.
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#43
11-07-2005, 05:02 AM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
I would tend to agree with this when it comes to human life.
Also, It seems like we will either use genetic engineering to progress in the future. Or simply build thinking machines smarter than ourselves, much more rapidly than we could naturally evolve. So design has likely taken over from natural evolution as far as evolutionary progress goes.
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#45
11-07-2005, 12:32 PM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
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[ QUOTE ] I thought I read somewhere that on average, people are taller now than they were even just a few hundred years ago. If true, wouldn't this be some sort of evolutionary process? [/ QUOTE ] This is a nutritional effect. [/ QUOTE ] Many believe that it's partially a nutritional effect and partly selection.
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#46
11-07-2005, 12:33 PM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Evolution as is commonly known has ended. People these days don't die because they are slow or weak or stupid. [/ QUOTE ] "Survival of the fittest" is only one simplified part of evolution. [/ QUOTE ] and just because people are slow, weak and stupid does not mean they are not evolutionary fit. Couple of the posters here seem to think the fast, strong and intelligent are un-fit. chez [/ QUOTE ] This is a great point. Some of the adaptations that make the cow so successful is that it's slow, dumb, and tastes good. Not that that's really natural selection but it's the same principle. [/ QUOTE ] why isn't this natural selection at work? [/ QUOTE ] Because anytime humans are involved people will say it's artificial selection.
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#47
11-07-2005, 12:35 PM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Evolution as is commonly known has ended. People these days don't die because they are slow or weak or stupid. [/ QUOTE ] "Survival of the fittest" is only one simplified part of evolution. [/ QUOTE ] and just because people are slow, weak and stupid does not mean they are not evolutionary fit. Couple of the posters here seem to think the fast, strong and intelligent are un-fit. chez [/ QUOTE ] This is a great point. Some of the adaptations that make the cow so successful is that it's slow, dumb, and tastes good. Not that that's really natural selection but it's the same principle. [/ QUOTE ] why isn't this natural selection at work? [/ QUOTE ] Because anytime humans are involved people will say it's artificial selection. [/ QUOTE ] ...as if humans were somehow outside of nature
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#48
11-07-2005, 12:47 PM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Evolution as is commonly known has ended. People these days don't die because they are slow or weak or stupid. [/ QUOTE ] "Survival of the fittest" is only one simplified part of evolution. [/ QUOTE ] and just because people are slow, weak and stupid does not mean they are not evolutionary fit. Couple of the posters here seem to think the fast, strong and intelligent are un-fit. chez [/ QUOTE ] This is a great point. Some of the adaptations that make the cow so successful is that it's slow, dumb, and tastes good. Not that that's really natural selection but it's the same principle. [/ QUOTE ] why isn't this natural selection at work? [/ QUOTE ] Because anytime humans are involved people will say it's artificial selection. [/ QUOTE ] ...as if humans were somehow outside of nature [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, this bothers me too, and I work on evolution. Basically they call the ant-aphid agriculture natural but the human-cow one is artificial.
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#50
11-07-2005, 01:45 PM
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Re: Has evolution stopped?
GTFO N00B!
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