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Offline chaser

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« on: December 08, 2011, 11:08:48 PM »
If we evolved why did evolution stop? :headscratch:

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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 11:09:56 PM »
Who says it did?
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 11:13:53 PM »
We peaked in 1975.


Been downhill ever since.


Standard cycle of nature ya know.
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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2011, 11:26:51 PM »
Better question...  If we evolved from Chimps, why are there still millions of Chimps? 
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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2011, 11:27:32 PM »
I think we are at our climax, not much to improve on, we are utterly doomed waiting for the next extinction to allow us to continue the cycle
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2011, 11:28:15 PM »
Better question...  If we evolved from Chimps, why are there still millions of Chimps?  

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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2011, 11:29:14 PM »
That's racist yo

Pretty quick edit there Melvin.  
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2011, 11:30:24 PM »
Pretty Quick edit there Melvin.  

Busted.
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« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2011, 11:53:29 PM »
Evolution requires an outside stress that has a favorable mutation in the gene somewhere that gets passed along and changes something down the line.  Unfortunately, we've peaked and now can control nature for the most part, so no longer have an outside force driving a change in how we are.  if anything, the fruits of out labor have allowed the less fit genetic material to be passed on because there is no interference from nature.

So until such a time as we all get super powers from radon gas, or the aliens come back to do it with us again, and hopefully not re enslave us, we'll be stuck getting stupider.
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2011, 12:01:40 AM »
Evolution requires an outside stress that has a favorable mutation in the gene somewhere that gets passed along and changes something down the line.  Unfortunately, we've peaked and now can control nature for the most part, so no longer have an outside force driving a change in how we are.  if anything, the fruits of out labor have allowed the less fit genetic material to be passed on because there is no interference from nature.


I think I read that in "Guns, Germs and Steel".


Like I said, we're devolving.
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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2011, 12:06:32 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2011, 12:14:21 AM »
Only one possible location for this thread to lead to.
The only question is how long it takes to get there.

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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2011, 12:16:31 AM »
Here are some simple reasons to you answers:

Hardy-weinberg Equilibrium did not happen
Bottleneck effect happen in some populations
Founder Effect occured in some parts of the world
Punctuated Equilibrium
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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2011, 12:16:51 AM »


So until such a time as we all get super powers from radon gas, or the aliens come back to do it with us again, and hopefully not re enslave us, we'll be stuck getting stupider.

We are alredy seeing evidence of this.
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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2011, 01:27:11 AM »
Genetic mutations are still occurring.

At our max!?  No way, why stop now?

Thinking humans are in control of nature is absurd.  We are at the whim of nature's will.

IF humans are around in another million years, we will be a very different creature.
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