Do you believe in evolution??
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Here too , there are various theories , genetic manipulation being one.
Genetic engineering is the present and very much the future. It is and will be a valuable weapon in combatting many illnesses and conditions , if used properly.
I’m in no way saying that evolution has stopped at Homo Sapiens but just pointing out that 4000 years is not very long in evolutionary terms for our brains to be very different to the Mayans.
Babeth made a very good point about creativity needing time on our hands and not having to devote all of our time to the basics of just trying to exist.
Also our flourishing and ‘success’ technologically coincides with one of the most stable of times as far as the planet is concerned. No major volcano eruptions to blot out the sun, no asteroid strikes, stable climate (for now)….
Evolution is natures selection of the strongest.
DNA accumulates changes over time. Some of these changes can be beneficial, and provide a selective advantage for an organism.
I would think food supply, heat and moisture possibly have an influence on the animal and vegetable world.
Ironically beetles ie cockroaches etc have changed little over the years I believe
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Alien involvement? We are no more intelligent now than we were thousands of years ago, we simply know more, as in better educated. Ten thousand years ago we built stone circles in Turkey because we had come to understand the seasons, started to brew beer because we knew it was safer to drink than the water on its own. Moved from family units of hunter gatherers into small tribes. Five thousand years later, the ancient Brits built Stonehenge while the Egyptians were starting to build pyramids. Then we had the bronze age. Eastern med coast full of hundreds of thousands of people living in cities, trading together. While the Brit’s were running around in animal skins living in mud hut’s.
I’ve absolutely no idea what we evolved from but its all awfully interesting.
It’s awesome, my brain hurts !
It is awesome. South Americans didn’t invent their own version of the wheel, north American Indians killed and ate all the indigenous population of horses without working out the other option was ride them. Apparently the citizens of Yarmouth are still evolving but nobody knows what in to.
Yarmouth IOW presumably ?
I am convinced that in time our thumbs will become as long as our other fingers .They are used far more now by the younger generation on their phones and tablets !
The remnants of our ancestors that have been found and named are not conclusive to be able to map our evolution .
There are large gaps and there is a lot of guess work involved by many different ” specialists” and every time new remnants are discovered everything changes again.
When does one type of humanoid become another ? This is such a slow process and is still continueing ,maybe we will already be classified as a different species in future centuries .
Since we have become scared of racial classification, our species has just been called Homo sapiens .
They haven’t dug them up yet, or like after a lot of major battles, the local farmers dug up the bones, crushed them for fertilizer.
More replies from Lun Bugel please. I found Lun’s responses to be amongst the very best I have ever read on this forum
Thank you Gleaner, I am touched by your comments.
I’m happy to contribute where I can.
I have to say I am very pleased to see that the forum has become a lot friendlier recently and this has encouraged me to participate rather than observe.
Thanks to all who have made this happen.
Thank you LB for your comments regarding the forum becoming more friendlier, that has always been the intention, and always will be. A lively debate, disagreements, different opinions, all of these things make for a healthy environment.
Please keep posting!
to understand evolution one must know a lot about consciousness – they go hand in hand.. but an excerpt from the article posted about. —
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Though he remains at best a contentious figure, and to some an irredeemable charlatan, (wow!) Sheldrake sees some evidence that this old opposition is breaking down, that doubt and wonder might be returning to science.
“I think one of the reasons why my book has – so far – been well received is that times are changing,” he suggests. “A lot of our old certainties, not least neoliberal capitalism, have been turned on their head. The atheist revival movement of Dawkins and Hitchens and Dennett is for many people just too narrow and dogmatic. I think it is a uniquely open moment…”
His hope is that there will be a “coming out” moment in science. “It’s like gays in the 1950s,” he suggests. “I think if people in the realm of science and medicine came out and talked about the limitations of purely mechanistic and reductive approaches it would be much more fun…”
The imminence of Sheldrake’s three score years and ten has made questions of mortality and consciousness seem a little more pressing to him. He almost came face to face with his morphic energies in 2008; speaking at a consciousness conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he was attacked with a knife by a Japanese paranoid schizophrenic. He suffered a huge wound in his thigh, which just missed his femoral artery. “Apparently,” he says, “he was aiming at my heart and stumbled at the last moment. It certainly made death a bit more present.”
Given his speculative nature, I wonder what he imagined, as his life flashed before him, would happen next? :
btw folks who knew Blue Velvet – how is she doing? – just asking..
Thank you LB for your comments regarding the forum becoming more friendlier, that has always been the intention, and always will be. A lively debate, disagreements, different opinions, all of these things make for a healthy environment. Please keep posting!
part of evolving eh?
Since we have become scared of racial classification, our species has just been called Homo sapiens .
We haven’t become scared of racial classification. It’s been debunked as an outdated Victorian concept designed to justify racism and slavery.
There is only one race of humans, the human race. We all share 99.9% of the same DNA.
Having observed the events at wembley recently I find myself having problems accepting this theory !!!!
Having observed the events at wembley recently I find myself having problems accepting this theory !!!!
Ah’ but it is that last 0.1% that makes all the difference!
Since we have become scared of racial classification, our species has just been called Homo sapiens .
We haven’t become scared of racial classification. It’s been debunked as an outdated Victorian concept designed to justify racism and slavery. There is only one race of humans, the human race. We all share 99.9% of the same DNA.
There is only one Species of humans alive on Earth whereas there are three basic races recognized by anthropoligists ( or four if you include Australoid). There are also many subdivisions .
If you understand that Homo sapiens share 98.8% of their DNA with Pan troglodytes then the 0.1% does make a difference !
btw folks who knew Blue Velvet – how is she doing? – just asking..
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