[Renfield]

Human Evolution ping...

[samtheman]

Fitness Has Fallen Since The Days Of Ancient Greece

[Bruinator]

This seems to speak more on adaptation rather than evolution. The two terms get confused.

[stuartcr]

Perhaps evolution has not been proceeding steadily at the current rate since humans and chimps separated 6 million years ago!

[blam]

Human Evolution Seems to Be Accelerating (Jews evolved from "financing!")

Humans Are Still Evolving - And It's Happening Faster Than Ever

[junta]

Yes of course a book that was reviled by the phonies who took “Evolution” for cheap political theatrics correctly called this it was the “Bell Curve.” I read it and it changed my entire outlook on the political process.

[Brilliant]

I would call it “devoluion.”

[Brilliant]

I would call it “devolution.”

[Aquinasfan]

And they found that different changes are occurring in Africans, Asians and Europeans

So which is shaping up as the superior race?

I'm thinking that maybe this is a road that we really don't want to go down again.

[Mogollon]

Tntra-species variation does not equal evolution. Higher lactose intolerance among asians was the main premise for the ignorant title of the article.

[z3n]

why is it that every time I read stuff like this, it just sounds like some bored old academics conjured some new stuff up at a coffee house pow wow.
It always seems to contradict other things they have been saying, and often includes garbage that would get your butt beat if you said it in a bar.

I love the bit about how evolution is accelerating, yet later it conjectures about how successful jews in northern Europe had larger families, thus increasing intelligence in their gene pool. Well, modern society seems to promote larger offspring counts for the least successful. What does that say bout your 'accelerating evolution'?

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[Cicero]

What we seem to be talking about is intra-species evolution or adaption, which has never been in doubt.

The most famous instance is the length of bird beaks, but it also applies to skin color as an adaption to how much sunlight people are exposed to. Or there is the famous argument that you shouldn’t help out diabetics, because it would be better for the species if they were allowed to die out.

Maybe it is devolution, since civilization tends to preserve what Darwinists would call undesirable traits. See Cyril Kornbluth’s classic SF novel, “The Marching Morons.”

[SunkenCiv]

Rapid Acceleration in Human Evolution Described
Reuters | Dec 10, 2007 | Will Dunham
Posted on 12/11/2007 3:34:37 AM EST by anymouse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1937741/posts

Human Evolution Seems to Be Accelerating
(Jews evolved from “financing!”)
AP via Fox News | 12-11-07
Posted on 12/11/2007 11:28:45 AM EST by squireofgothos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1937908/posts

[MEGoody]

Used to be that the appendix was used as 'proof' of evolution. . .that no one knew what it was used for, but it used to be used for something and was no longer needed.

I was reading some medical info the doctor gave us the other day in preparation for a family member's surgery, and it indicates that the appendix is now considered to be a 'storage area' for the beneficial bacteria our bowels need to digest food efficiently. (Those bacteria can be lost or their populations signficantly reduced when an individual has a long bout of particularly severe diarrhea or if an individual has significant surgery on their digestive system.)

[RightWhale]

Yet another evolution motor that may be so far from reality that even a watchwearer could refute it.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Guess they don’t really know.

[SunkenCiv]

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