Fact, human evolve, missing links not needed for proof.
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Fact, human evolve, missing links not needed for proof.
They Don't Make Homo Sapiens Like They Used To
Our species—and individual races—have recently made big evolutionary changes to adjust to new pressures
For decades the consensus view—among the public as well as the world’s preeminent biologists—has been that human evolution is over. Since modern Homo sapiens emerged 50,000 years ago, “natural selection has almost become irrelevant” to us, the influential Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould proclaimed. “There have been no biological changes. Everything we’ve called culture and civilization we’ve built with the same body and brain.” This view has become so entrenched that it is practically doctrine. Even the founders of evolutionary psychology, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, signed on to the notion that our brains were mostly sculpted during the long period when we were hunter-gatherers and have changed little since. “Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind,” they wrote in a background piece on the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
So to suggest that humans have undergone an evolutionary makeover from Stone Age times to the present is nothing short of blasphemous. Yet a team of researchers has done just that. They find an abundance of recent adaptive mutations etched in the human genome; even more shocking, these mutations seem to be piling up faster and ever faster, like an avalanche. Over the past 10,000 years, their data show, human evolution has occurred a hundred times more quickly than in any other period in our species’ history ………….
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SamCogar- Number of posts : 6238
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Re: Fact, human evolve, missing links not needed for proof.
WHAT, ...... no comments from the Creationists or the Intelligent Design'ers?
Well then, I'll add a little more to it, .... from the same article, ...... and maybe it will spark a reply from them.
Maybe I should post this to the Religion Forum and ask the Creationists why their God created man and woman to be "lactose intolerant".
HUUUUUMMMM, mighy curious and perplexing it is.
Their God created all those animals for their use ...... but He/She apparently didn't want them to, ..... or forgot to provide them the ability to, .......... drink the milk produced by those female animals.
Either that or their God practiced ....... discrimination. Creating some that are pale skinned, blue eyed and/or lactose tolerant ........ whereas others were denied said.
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Well then, I'll add a little more to it, .... from the same article, ...... and maybe it will spark a reply from them.
Our exodus out of Africa, for example, paved the way for one of the most obvious markers of race, skin hue. As scientists widely recognize, paler complexions are a genetic adjustment to low light: People with dark skin have trouble manufacturing vitamin D from ultraviolet radiation in northern latitudes, which makes them more susceptible to serious bone deformities. Consequently, Europeans and Asians over the last 20,000 years evolved lighter skin through two dozen different mutations that decrease production of the skin pigment melanin.
Similarly, the gene for blue eyes codes for paler skin coloring in many vertebrates and hence might have piggybacked along with lighter skin. Clearly something made blue eyes evolutionarily advantageous in some environments. “No one on earth had blue eyes 10,000 years ago,” Hawks says.
The transition to an agrarian existence after hundreds of thousands of years of hunting and gathering was another key catalyst of evolution. Once people began keeping cattle herds, for example, it became an advantage to derive nutrient calories from milk throughout life rather than only as an infant or toddler suckling at its mother’s breast. A mutation that arose about 8,000 years ago in northern Europe, Hawks says, allowed adults to digest lactose (the main sugar in milk), and it propagated rapidly, allowing the rise of the modern dairy industry. Today the gene for lactose digestion is present in 80 percent of Europeans but in just 20 percent of Asians and Africans.
Maybe I should post this to the Religion Forum and ask the Creationists why their God created man and woman to be "lactose intolerant".
HUUUUUMMMM, mighy curious and perplexing it is.
Their God created all those animals for their use ...... but He/She apparently didn't want them to, ..... or forgot to provide them the ability to, .......... drink the milk produced by those female animals.
Either that or their God practiced ....... discrimination. Creating some that are pale skinned, blue eyed and/or lactose tolerant ........ whereas others were denied said.
.
SamCogar- Number of posts : 6238
Location : Burnsville, WV
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Re: Fact, human evolve, missing links not needed for proof.
Stephanie wrote:Indigo children, Sammy..........LOL
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SamCogar- Number of posts : 6238
Location : Burnsville, WV
Registration date : 2007-12-28
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