a reply to:
godsovein
Neanderthals didn't become extinct. We are them. We are Lucy too and we are the apes that were before them.
The movement out of Africa happened by slow degrees. Lucy was found in Ethiopia. Who was the first evolving ape human to venture out into the earth?
Not even they were the first. It is like a stream that flows and keeps repleneshing from its source and all it picks up on its meandering course that
mingles with it too. An amoeba floats around in the sea from Australia to Greenland because it can. Species were spreading out from the source of
animated life since the first cell split. Human are just carrying on that biological tradition and are being played by the forces of evolution
contiunually. Evolution NEVER stands still.
If we are able to keep surviving another five million years do you think we will look as we do now? We will be as different as little Lucy is to us at
the very least. All the species of the earth are doing that at their own rate. Dinosaurs turned into birds and reptiles. The first cell that split
eventually became a human. Big changes bring big changes in species. Some developments on a theme fare better against the stresses of the environment.
It might be that what is in the ocean does not deviate in its DNA as quickly as what is on the land. Perhaps on land we are exposed to significantly
more background cosmic radiation and other environmental prompts driven by constant environmental change that happens on land. The sea environment
does not change much (not until modern humans have begun to destroy it). It follows that there will not be the frenzy of prompts to diversify and
mutate that there is on land. That is why sharks have not changed as quickly nor deviated as much as apes have.
Humans threw themselves into so much continual change in so many locations. In five million years time will they say Homo Sapiens became extinct
because they are no longer around? I would tell them the same thing. They will be us, not extinct but evolved.
The African population are themselves such a big mixture of DNA information as they came back to Africa continually. During any environmental upheavel
they would go back to where it is warmer and easier to survive in the middle bands of the equatorial regions. I do believe that the ice ages pushing
life into the middle earth zones concentrated species populations that survived the catacysms and allowed them to stay still long enough to do some
serious evolving. There has to have been a long period of separation between the Neanderthals and the newly evolved Sapiens so one could assume a
constant enough form for it to be distinguishable from the other or there would have been no difference. Perhaps a long ice age cut them off from
Africa and stopped the humans moving around so much for a time long enough for them to be separated and allowed to evolve their development of the
theme. The Neanderthals that were able to survive in a harsh climate would not evolve at the same rate as the warm and well fed Africans who would
have been having lots more babies with a much larger DNA pool of diversification to be forged into the very powerful Homo Sapiens. Evolution is
happening in that way and then it happens in other ways too. It changes as location changes. It is the sum of interaction of all its parts: It is the
Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is here. It always has been.
People who are murderously insane are themselves a mutation and behavioural deviation. If it was a useful behaviour that aided survival and beat other
behaviours on that score then we would become serial killers. Evolution is life. It only works with life. All death is a constant failure. Obviously
if it could evolve something that could live forever it would have won the jackpot and broke the bank. The Bible predicts that life will become
something that conquers atrophy and every kind of cosmic environmental erosion of forms.
Life wants to live forever. Humans are the earth's spoilt brats. It tolerates our madness because we are meeting its needs and its purpose. If not
then we would long ago have perished as a mistake. It has made us almost like little gods over all we survey. It needs us for its purpose.
There are cultural differences even in violence. In the UK black men kill black men much more than the others kill each other as gang violence. The
statistics prove that. Most serial killers are indeed caucasian. Both are killing, just in culturally different ways. This behaviour also causes
ripples that are part of the evolutionary process. For every little action there is a reaction. It is a universal law that even planets and stars must
obey.
The speculation and fathoming is endless. It would take milliions of years and more to describe what has been happening these millions of years in all
its detail. We can only precis it into a code of words to extend our perception and consciousness regarding the history of our evolution. Can our
perception be as huge as eternity because that is how big this thing is? The sum of eternity is infinite. Potential is infinite as long it is allowed
to continue.
The Tree of Life has within its information pool the potential for eternal life. Evolution is looking for it. Now this Tree is here it does not want
to die. It will try to outlive the life span of this planet and solar system and I believe it will achieve it.
The source of the Tree of Life is the BIG BANG! That is the Seed it grew out of. There will be a source to the big bang too. That is the Creator's
Business.
edit on 20-9-2022 by Tarantula777 because: (no reason given)