Not your typical thought on evolution (at least for me)

[inside the sun]

well lets see, we used to have tails but did not need those, and canines. I think pinky toes may disappear unless they serve a purpose they are slowly getting smaller and smaller, :-P.
In all seriousness we have clipped away most of the things that are "useless to us, or unneccessary" on our bodies. Until life becomes like that in the Anime "Ghost in Shell" (i and a great deal of others believe this is what our future offers to us. Eventually we will beging making parts of our bodies robotic, so that we are stronger, faster etc.. And well i think the first things we will evolve past our eyes, ears and noses. We will look quite strange yes. lol. This is way far in the future, for now, everything seams to serve a purpose..at least on my body

[ingannilo]

Originally Posted by inside the sun

well lets see, we used to have tails but did not need those, and canines. I think pinky toes may disappear unless they serve a purpose they are slowly getting smaller and smaller, :-P.

Here's a perfect example.

Toes will probably go away with the advent of something that can completely suppliment the need to balance on the feet. This being their primary use now. So idk, gyroscopically stabalized jet rollerblades? Who knows? But I bet it'll happen eventually.

Technology = evolution.

[Drip Curl Magic]

I find it so strange that the weakest creature in the animal kingdom(in terms of shere muscle strength, of course) has become the most dominant.

Where would we be without our intelligence? no intelligence= no technology. No technology and we'd be a minority.

Easiest prey on the plain. Sometimes i try to figure out why we evolved the way we did. I wonder why we developed tools, rather than dying off.

And if i weren't so drunk, I'd be able to remember my point. I was going to connect the way we developed in the past to the way we are going to develop in the future.... but my head is spinning way too hardcore. uhh, I guess I'll try again in the morning. hehe.

[sanctus]

Originally Posted by inside the sun

yes that was my point orginally made, or what i meant.
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Our technology is our evolution and it gives us the same abilities that animals naturally have

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Sorry I didn't read the post carefully enough. But just one question don't we have as well naturally the abilities we have if technology is our evolution? I mean evolution is by definition a natural thing (at least to me).

So you should say:

Our technology is our evolution and it gives us the same abilities that animals have by their evoultion[/QUOTE].


Anyway it might just be a detail...

[inside the sun]

good call thank you

[Sobabi]

We don't have wings because we don't need them, with our planes, jets, etc... We don't need means of being able to accelerate and pick up and maintain a higher speed with our bodies because we have created automotives We don't need to devolp better hearing, or sonar location, or anything because we have made devices for those We don't need fur or hair all over our bodies because we have made shelters, and clothing ...

I know what you are getting at; but i dont agree with you. Maybe I am being pedantic. I think you would be more correct if you had said:
"We don't have wings because we don't need them. We don't need means of being able to accelerate and pick up and maintain a higher speed with our bodies. We don't need to devolp better hearing so we havent. We don't need fur or hair all over our bodies so we don't."

My point is that, there are many animals with no wings, with little body hair, or slow speeds. They do not have them and are still here because they were able to survive without them. Sure technology might make a difference in the long run, but i think you are over stating its importance.

[inside the sun]

the only reason why i gave reasons for each, is because according to evolution, things evolve because they need them. the giraffes neck grew to reach the high up fruit, the polar bear grew a thick coat to survive the winter..etc.
those that don't evolve die out, thats natural selection?

[Sobabi]

the only reason why i gave reasons for each, is because according to evolution, things evolve because they need them.

Well, althought that is good simple discription of the outcome of evoultion, i don't think it really explains the way it works. Evolution does not have an aim, its a random process "guided" by natural selection. Humans never need wings or needed to run faster. If they had, they probably would have died off rather than randomly came up with the genetic mutations to develope them. I guess what i am saying that technology better explains why we are still here (if physically we are not so apt at survival), rather than assuming that we would be here but asking why we are not different to what we are now.