"Human Evolution is Over"

by JanH 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  JanH

  Is human evolution finally over?

  "For those who dream of a better life, science has bad news: this is the best it is going to get. Our species has reached its biological pinnacle and is no longer capable of changing.

  That is the stark, controversial view of a group of biologists who believe a Western lifestyle now protects humanity from the forces that used to shape Homo sapiens."

  See http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0%2c4273%2c4348751%2c00.html for the full article

  I didn't really find anything new there, but I don't see how evolution could give us utopia, either.

  (edited to fix link)

  - Jan
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  - "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")
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  aChristian

  Jan,

  Your link to the evolution article does not seem to work.
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  metatron

  from here on , it'll be consciously directed.

  Apparently, the genetic model for humanity will be Nordic
  types, given that Iceland is providing the gene data base
  for research.

  metatron
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  JanH

  aC,

  Try now.

  This site stops encoding the url at a comma, so i had to replace it with "%2c". And here I thought hex tables were out of fashion.

  - Jan
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  - "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")
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  Valis

  I think metatron is right, I think its the human mind will get us to the next stage of our evolution as a species. Maybe living in space or other planet? I do think however that our bodies will always evolve for good or for worse. As long as things like AIDS and other diseases become resistant to our drugs, our bodies will slowly adapt to them as well, hence evolution. Its either that or we will go the way of cro-magnon and other pre-homo sapien human like beings.
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  ISP

  Thats good news Jan....but I thought it might be good to evolve a bullet proof chest....speed camera detectors

  ISP
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  D wiltshire

  When a spider learns to build a web we say that it evolution.
  And we are right.

  A bird learns to builds a nest that is evolution.

  When man builds a rocket we have to say that is evolution.

  Man building atom smashers to explore the sub atomic that is evolution.
  Man exploring the cosmos thru telescopes that is evolution.
  Libraties with book in them that is evolution.
  Computors and the internet that is evolution.

  How can anybody in their right mind say evolution has stopped.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  JanH

  Dw,

  Biological evolution is very different from learning. Evolution is change in genes over generations, not changes in the environment. Neither is the accumulation of knowledge and skill in any way similar to biological evolution.

  You are of course right that it is a form of evolution, but not one related to biological evolution as initially described by Darwin.

  - Jan
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  - "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")
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  D wiltshire

  The outward manifestation of evolution of the mind is seen in the arts and science of man.
  Mans brain is trying to figure out whats outside and inside himself, which is very crucial to next steps of evolution. Can't you see it.
  Just think about it for a while, and you see it clearly.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  teejay

  I haven't studied the issue and don't mind saying I'm a layman when it comes to this subject, but it doesn't make much sense to think that the human species is now as good as it will ever be. People today are getting healthier, stronger, better in most ways from our parent's and grandparent's generations.

  I tend to agree with D Wiltshire when he pointed to interest in the arts and sciences. It would seem to me that these interests would bring about neurological changes in people over time, and these advancements would be passed on to later generations.