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riotkitty Join Date: 2003-04-09 Member: 15348Members
riotkitty Join Date: 2003-04-09 Member: 15348Members
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being that there is proof humans have undergone millions of years of evolution to get to the shape and form we have today...
what do you guess human's next evolutionary step will be?
i believe humans will lose their hair...we don't need it. i think we once did for insulation, but over time humans developed more efficient ways of keeping themselves warm.
we should lose our wisdom teeth and our appendix too because they're useless.
maybe our brains will be more bigger and our skull shape will look more narrow on the bottom and have a bigger crainial cavity.
ew...we'll really look like aliens. i'm guessing this'll happen millions of years from now when we're long gone and somewhat forgotten.
what do you guess human's next evolutionary step will be?
i believe humans will lose their hair...we don't need it. i think we once did for insulation, but over time humans developed more efficient ways of keeping themselves warm.
we should lose our wisdom teeth and our appendix too because they're useless.
maybe our brains will be more bigger and our skull shape will look more narrow on the bottom and have a bigger crainial cavity.
ew...we'll really look like aliens. i'm guessing this'll happen millions of years from now when we're long gone and somewhat forgotten.
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Anyway, more emphasis on the mind, less on the body. We might even turn into beigins of pure thought.
Yet to see anything concrete from the fossil record, besides completely developed specimens.
i'd love to be a gorge! heh, we'd be like cows, except we'd be able to build stuff.
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then those upright primate fossils are just extinct mammals?
*sarcasm* Yeah, also all those cave paintings and prehistoric dwellings, they don't exsist, and dinosaurs are figmaents of our imagination too.
*this reminds me, I have an anthropology midterm tommorow, on this subject!!*
I learned that from watching cowboy bebop hehehe. I seriously think we wont evolve at all. Theres simply no need too, everything will just stay the same.
There are exceptions, of course (my boss is a very bright self-made millionaire with about a gajillion kids), but on the whole, there simply isn't any reproductive advantage to being smarter, other than perhaps a slight survival edge (eg not driving drunk or sticking forks into electrical outlets).
As an aside: theory on why we have hair on our heads is not to keep us cool, but to deflect the sun's rays and prevent sunstroke.
These evolution posts always turn out oddly.
First, Evolution is a THEORY, not a fact. Contrary to what you're told. So, those who believe that it is contradictory to some religions and therefore believe they are false, then you need to realize that evolution is basically a religion in itself.
For as many scientist that will say its true, you'll have just as many say it's not.
Just to clarify. : )
Carry on.
Personally I believe that as lifestyle support gets bigger (cars, public transport, calculators, internet ordering) the average human will turn into a corpulent lazy slob incabable of all but the most basic functions, doomed to extinction as the support network fails and no-one can be bothered to fix it.
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To those who doubt the feasibility of evolution, I say to thee... BEHOLD MY SCREENSAVER!
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But yes, evolution is just a theory (though as theories go, it's about as close to being proven as it can get and still remain a "theory"), yada yada. I think we're meant to conduct discussion in this thread under the prior assumption that evolution does in fact happen, and that it's most likely still happening to us.
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Although one might say that creationism can't be tested by further scientific investigation as it is an act of faith (as are some of the very basic levels of science)
Whereas evolution is a theory (as stated by the above post)
oh hell what do i know, i appologize for making it sound like evolution is in fact true. i do believe in darwinism because it's true, every creature wants to survive. that is clearly evident in nature.
Evolution is still a "theory" because it's not directly observable or reproducible in a laboratory, at least on a large scale. However, there's certainly a large enough body of supporting evidence (observation of evolution on smaller scales, fossil records, logical reasoning following from knowledge of genetics) that most scientists subscribe to the theory of evolution as the most likely explanation for how complex life arose on Earth.
As far as I know, creationism is more of a "postulate" - it has to be accepted on faith, rather than supported or proven by external evidence.
Note that the theory of evolution does not presuppose that God does not exist, or that God had no hand in creating life on Earth. It simply states that living things change over time to adapt to their environment, and that all living things that we see today are the product of many years of gradual refinement. (Creationism, AFAIK, states that all living things exist exactly as they were originally created by God, and that they don't ever change. I think it also states that the earth is something like 15 thousand years old, and that the fossil record is actually a product of "hydrodynamic sorting" at the time of the great flood.)