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I meant to address the social evolution with my reply in post #5. On the back, all I know is that mine is killing me, it's from heavy labor, and I hurt it before I reproduced. Pass the aspirin. ![]() ---------------- Who doesn't want to use words that will stun people into silence? ~ShaYou gonna eat that? | ||
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| Understanding | Re: Has our BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ended? Quote:
Yes, Post #5 did give a good example of cultural adaption. Social evolution is behind our success in the last forty or more thousand years. And yes, back problems are endemic. I really don't understand how Latin American immigrants are able to do stoop labor in the agricultural fields day after day and manage. Anyone have an answer? charles [url=http://atheistic-science.com] | ||
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| Understanding | Re: Has our BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ended? Quote:
![]() . . ...Gosh, what a great thread: page 1: Right on, Pyro! ...and Nitak! "What continues to evolve is our accumulated wisdom." -Turtle "What will drive the evolution if the environment is no longer the stressor?" -Kayra "If the change is extreme enough..., but as a species we're still quite young." -Donk OP: "It is not races that are the entities which compete to survive! It is mainstream religions." -CB Wow, I hope page 2 is as good!!! "...and hunched backs from computers.....its not far off." -Ganoderma ![]() Boerseun! Thanks for digressing! ...but despite the fact that "The environment is humanity's bitch -" ...if we change our behaviour [see Turtle], whip the environment back into shape; and we can pull this out and emerge... Type 1.... ??? page 2: Thanks also Hermes.... OP: "It is like the Clash of Civilizations." -CB ...back on topic? i.e. OP: "Even so, look at the progress we humans have had during that time! Just because academics don't know what the social---not biological---evolutionary process is that does account for that progress does not mean it is not happening." -CB ...and what about brain evolution!!! Just look at the 16 different Myers-Briggs Type Indicators and their relative proportions in the population (i.e. INFP= 4.4%; INFJ= 13.3%) ...or is that just a part of the whole social thing? === Nitak, Speaking of the whole biological side (i.e. AIDS): ...just wait for this to develop.... MRSA Death MRSA deaths are on the rise in the United States and around the world. / In fact, the number of MRSA-related deaths in the U.S. is significantly higher than public health officials once thought. The MRSA death rate in the U.S. is now higher than the AIDS death rate. === OH! ...and Charles B! Thanks for mentioning epigenetics! Just think what living in houses is doing... and antibiotics... and.... ~ ![]() | ||
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| Thinking | Re: Has our BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ended? As long as there is selection pressure, evolution will continue. The interesting thing is that that selection pressure doesn't operate in the way you'd expect. If you're a healthy middle class parent with two children, a spouse, a job, etc versus a heroin addict with 14 kids who lives in a box, evolution favors the addict (at the moment). The addict has reproduced more, and is likely to produce offspring that engage in similar behavior, thus reproducing more. Being wealthy, resourceful, intelligent, etc. are 'vestigal' behaviors/drives from a time when these things were required to prevent your starvation and ensure your ability to produce reproductively viable offspring. Selection pressure isn't "intelligent", and therefore doesn't know that people who do little other than mass-reproduction require others (who produce fewer offspring) to support them. The cycle resets when there aren't enough competent (and also altruistic) people to feed the 'reproduction only' group. Depressing stuff, but that's my understanding of the selection pressure on the human species. Correct me if I'm wrong, or add whatever you think I might have missed. | |
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| Understanding | Re: Has our BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ended? Quote:
The religions that bind us into these societies eventually grow old while new science and technology fortunately accumulate. This finally makes the old faith obsolete. It is then seen as "false" (that is, more INaccurate). There eventually arises a need to replace the old ideology and the secular doctrines that evolved from it into a totally new ideological system that seems totally secular. | ||
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