Evolution 'Switched Off'

[gl556tr]

Bio-diversity has engendered evolution, simply visualised in the silhouetted figures depicting change from ape-like creatures on all fours to the erect Homo sapiens. These figures continue to change finally to apes. Have we seen the first steps in the many people bent forward gaping at their cell phones?

[Atheist]

Stableford, men nowadays and for centuries have often worn things which look like dresses. What's wrong with a man wearing a long flowing garment?

[drmorgans]

Evolution is measured in thousands, millions of years, not decades. Twenty years ago we used laptops and PCs. In 10, 20 years we'll be chipped or be using telepathy hats.

[MissTerious]

Warning. Elderly lady pickpockets

https://theorytest.org.uk/elderly-people-crossing-sign/

[MissTerious]

Gl it certainly didn't read like a serious question. Sorry

[MissTerious]

Actually evolution hasn't done humans any favours. It has ruined our backs. It is acknowledged medically that we should still be walking on all fours to avoid back damage.

[gl556tr]

Can you recommend one, Squithy?

[THECORBYLOON]

DRMORGANS, evolution can be seen over decades. Read this link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

[Atheist]

Missterious; Surely it's also acknowledged that if we walked on all fours we would be seriously disadvantaged - in fact we woldn't have survived at all. There's always a balance when changes occur; a change might be good in one way but bad in another. Natural selection takes it all into account.

[MissTerious]

You're of course right Atheist. But the back needs reviewing though by whoever created evolution! (I'm not religious)

[Peter Pedant]

Bio-diversity has engendered evolution,
erm no
the other way round
evolution has engendered Bio-diversity ,

so in diverse environments, there will be a variety of winners

and no - - there isnt enough time ( for phones to do daah what ever you say might happen)

[Peter Pedant]

created evolution?
it is like saying - whoever created profit and loss
or created the colour red
or who created the conservative party or whatever

[Peter Pedant]

see evolution in action
bacteria and multiplication - they do so many in an hour

You know the foot prints in Formby ( o mr Choo, how do you do?....) yeah there. 9000 y and they are still H. Sapiens

[sandyRoe]

During the early days of the AIDS epidemic researchers found that there was a group in Africa impervious to the virus.
Was that evolution in action?
Had the virus appeared three or four hundreds of years before it did there might have been space for another exodus from the dark continent.

[drmorgans]

TheCorbyLoon: I assumed the questioner was talking about human evolution. My bad.

[gl556tr]

I had human evolution in mind when I started this discussion. But, as you see, even this is 'evolving'!

[gl556tr]

All life-forms are continuously evolving. Subtle changes result from the successful genes. That pepper moth is a famous example. A SARS --CoVid-- a more recent one. Returning to humans, we often have reports of five toes, five fingers and 'new' arteries. Longer thumbs from intense use on mobiles? Who knows.

[Peter Pedant]

the early days of the AIDS epidemic researchers found that there was a group in Africa impervious to the virus.

no: in the later days, researchers found the people of Eyam Derbyshire lacked the receptor ( impervious) to the virus and this was ascribed to the survivors of the Plague 1666, were those who were impervious to Pasteurella. So I suppose that wd be selection of the fittest as defined by Darwen. But not a difft species

One of the crazies' disproofs of evolution is that it may occur but no one has observed the emergence of a separate species - therefore evolution is not important, creationism must be.

thing about Eyam ( that is eem reader) is why were they testing them for HIV considering they are mid Derbyshire sheep breeders

[Peter Pedant]

In December 2000, researches from the National cancer institute in Maryland, USA, analysed DNA Samples from one hundred residents in Eyam. These people were selected based upon the fact that family should be traceable back to the seventeenth century when the village was struck by bubonic plague.

Their results found that there was a greater than average proportion of the villagers carried a genetic mutation referred to as "CCR5-Delta 32" or "Delta 32''. The mutation gives immunity to bubonic plague.

As Eyam is a small village, almost everyone was exposed to the plague. The people who where not carrying the mutation would almost certainly die. Those who survived where carrying the mutation, they would live on too produce children, who in turn, would also be carrying the mutation. 300 years later, the village still has a higher proportion than average of the mutation.

The research sparked enormous interest, not least because it is known that the Delta 32 mutation, if inherited from both parents, gives immunity to HIV / AIDS.

[Khandro]

MissTerious 12:36.

:0)

[Bazile]

//Have we seen the first steps in the many people bent forward gaping at their cell phones?//

The next steps on the human journey ( with his mobile phone may be a perilous one )

https://en-gb.facebook.com/LADbible/videos/woman-looking-at-her-phone-falls-into-fountain/3068067566573746/