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originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
so they can fit in the oven for a longer time?
Nature won't know what to do with it, it will go out of balance.
I'm not saying our or the caveman's way of life is perfect, I'm saying our evolution although slow, IS nearly perfect.
Of course we see room for improvement, and yes, if i was the creator of all humans, i would do some things differently. But.. we already have a creator, nature.. and it is so incredibly complex that we will never be able to fully understand it, our bodies just the same.
Up until now our bodies, our ecosystems have been protected from things that don't belong by our immune system, if they weren't, these things would cause drastic changes.. even the smallest most insignificant piece of dust could kill us. But our immune system does not know what to do with large scale unnatural changes, our ecosystem will be completely vulnerable to the changes we apply to it.
One change could set a chain reaction blowing everything out of proportion.
If not quickly, then slowly, if not in one lifetime, then in a few.. but it will mess us up beyond repair.
originally posted by: redhorse
a reply to: Wolfenz
Well that's interesting and certainly a factor. Humans have evolved to be highly mobile and social, so it would on the surface make more sense for children to be ambulatory enough to keep up sooner, but with this evolutionary push-pull on energy consumption maybe it would make more sense for them to put the energy in neurodevelopment and stay small long enough to be carted around more easily for long journeys? These incidentals of social evolution as a response to environmental pressures may be another factor.
maybe it would make more sense for them to put the energy in neurodevelopment and stay small long enough to be carted around more easily for long journeys?
originally posted by: strongfp
We were never this interconnected for the majority of our human evolution.
We are very territorial, even someone sitting next to someone on the bus is enough to get our heart going a little.
Insects don't think for themselves, the most they do is 'teach' other ants locations through certain smells and scents, after that pheromone is gone they will never remember that path again and get lost.
Look at how certain ants, if put into a circle will follow one another until they are dead.
Humans learn through repetition, and passing on those repetitions to their young, or to an 'outsider' and we remember.
We are far more like apes, because we are apes, an we evolved as apes. The only reason why we are like ants or colony 'thinking' insects is because we gathered to make cities, civilization and the internet. That's more of a representation of our intelligence than an instinct.
We are far more like apes, because we are apes, an we evolved as apes. The only reason why we are like ants or colony 'thinking' insects is because we gathered to make cities, civilization and the internet. That's more of a representation of our intelligence than an instinct.
We are far more like apes, because we are apes, an we evolved as apes.
science shows that some traits evolve over a couple of generations. Plus farmers have selectively breeding for millenia, aspects of nature. So now we're getting to where we can control and design the same and I'm all for it.....less suffering, no more mental retardation, no more cerebral palsey, edit out the genes of suffering all together because suffering sux and we're all, even religions, doing whatever it takes not to suffer.
I disagree and see it as taking too long and its flawed. Personally I wouldn't want to pro-create myself to bring my own kids in a world like this and would rather wait to scan all of mine, and the misses, genetics to make sure we don't pass down flaws and suffering, depressions, suicidal tendencies, etc
Its already happened with the great flu, black plague, ebola, etc......stuff the weak limited human body can't handle has literally killed off millions. We are all one new mutated virus away from a global wiping out, all because these bodies are so fragile and weak
originally posted by: jinni73
a reply to: Wolfenz
The human body is not meant to run on glucose if you feed a human this their heart will beat irregularly and you will more than likely end up with cancer or diabetes.
I read somewhere a human is fully developed at the age of 25 and should live around 6-7 times its age after it matures we are the only species apparently not to live to their full life expectancy although I have not checked this out maybe someone else knows more about this who is into botany?
From about the age of four to puberty, the young brain guzzles glucose – the cerebral cortex, its largest part, uses nearly (or more than) double that used earlier or later in life. This creates a problem. A child’s body is a third of the size of an adult but its brain is nearly adult sized. Calculated as a share, a child’s takes up half of all the energy used by a child. Brain energy use and body size Map child growth against what is known about brain energy consumption and they shadow in a negative way: one goes up, the other down. The period in which the brain’s need for glucose peaks happens just when body growth most slows. Why? In a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Sciences, I proposed that this prevents a potential conflict over blood glucose that might otherwise arise between brawn and brain.
originally posted by: paraphi
In evolutionary terms it is the survival of the most adaptable, not the fittest. Extinction events happen when the species cannot adapt fast enough.
If your average orang-utan could be happily relocated from the rain forests to Siberian forests then there is hope, but we know they cannot. A human can thrive in both environs.
Regards