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Evolution - where do we go from here?
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Assuming that human beings evolved from the neanderthal and have lost the elongated brow among other features, what do you think will happen to the human race in the future, assuming of course we don't obliterate each other first. I heard once that humans will eventually lose their mouths, but I'm not sure of the reasoning behind this. Maybe
because all food will be in tablet form by then and we will communicate by mindpower. Any theories floating about out there?
because all food will be in tablet form by then and we will communicate by mindpower. Any theories floating about out there?
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Look, I'm not trying to overwhelm you with meaningless excerpts, and I will admit to occasional hyperbole (so accused by my kids, as well) in descriptive terms (when I coined the term "huge cadre" something said to me that Waldo's gonna ask for a source. I think there's a probable reason that web sites as well as acquaintences (my own formal education is Geology) freely discuss the contention among professionals regarding the subject of speciation and inherent disagreement and the lack of a List of namesof such disagreers (is that a word?) and that being an unwillingness on their part to be so listed but a willingness to express their opinions in journals and articles...
Having said that, I repeat that you're probably aware of a larger "battle" to define the parameters of micro and macro that is generally acknowledged publicly,no?
Let me close with this:
""Eldredge and Gould not only showed that paleontologists had been out-of-step with biologists for decades, but also that they had unconsciously trying to force the fossil record into the gradualistic mode. The few supposed examples of gradual evolution were featured in the journals and textbooks, but paleontologists had long been mum about their 'dirty little trade secret:' most species appear suddenly in the fossil record and show no appreciable change for millions of years until their extinction."
Dr. Donald Prothero (Prothero, D.R. 1992. Punctuated Equilibrium At Twenty: A Paleontological Perspective)
"Attempts to detect adaptive evolution at the molecular level have met with little success."
Dr. Paul Sharp
"The results of molecular genetics have frequently been difficult to explain by conventional evolutionary theory"
Dr. J.A. Shapiro
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Look, I'm not trying to overwhelm you with meaningless excerpts, and I will admit to occasional hyperbole (so accused by my kids, as well) in descriptive terms (when I coined the term "huge cadre" something said to me that Waldo's gonna ask for a source. I think there's a probable reason that web sites as well as acquaintences (my own formal education is Geology) freely discuss the contention among professionals regarding the subject of speciation and inherent disagreement and the lack of a List of namesof such disagreers (is that a word?) and that being an unwillingness on their part to be so listed but a willingness to express their opinions in journals and articles...
Having said that, I repeat that you're probably aware of a larger "battle" to define the parameters of micro and macro that is generally acknowledged publicly,no?
Let me close with this:
""Eldredge and Gould not only showed that paleontologists had been out-of-step with biologists for decades, but also that they had unconsciously trying to force the fossil record into the gradualistic mode. The few supposed examples of gradual evolution were featured in the journals and textbooks, but paleontologists had long been mum about their 'dirty little trade secret:' most species appear suddenly in the fossil record and show no appreciable change for millions of years until their extinction."
Dr. Donald Prothero (Prothero, D.R. 1992. Punctuated Equilibrium At Twenty: A Paleontological Perspective)
"Attempts to detect adaptive evolution at the molecular level have met with little success."
Dr. Paul Sharp
"The results of molecular genetics have frequently been difficult to explain by conventional evolutionary theory"
Dr. J.A. Shapiro
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"Every step in evolution, from a darkening of a moth's pigment to the development of the opposable thumb, is caused by a change in molecules. But biologists have rarely traced adaptive changes to their molecular roots in genes and proteins."
Dr. Elizabeth Pennisi
(Sources available at your request)
I'll look forward to your response, although I'll be away for a while as well...
"Every step in evolution, from a darkening of a moth's pigment to the development of the opposable thumb, is caused by a change in molecules. But biologists have rarely traced adaptive changes to their molecular roots in genes and proteins."
Dr. Elizabeth Pennisi
(Sources available at your request)
I'll look forward to your response, although I'll be away for a while as well...
