Someone hold me back!!
I feel myself spontaneously punctuating!!!
!?.,::;,,(.!)?!
Has anyone shown any evidence that a species has changed it’s genes enough to morph into a whole nother species?
Just curious.
LLS
Dr. Suresh Agrees.
I do think that with all the texting going on nowadays that the Human race will be Blind and have large thumbs.
Looks like the indoctrination didn’t exactly “take” with some of the evo crowd, either. This author has no idea what he or she is talking about. Isolation and “genetic bottlenecks” are credited with human evolution. Broadening the gene pool will cause a reversion to the norm.
They already have it’s called DEMOCRATS!!!!!
Division into two species is more likely to occur with physically divided populations and conditions of extreme stress where survival of the fittest is most powerful. Between increased travel to reduce physical division and modern medicine and agriculture making just about everyone fit to survive until old enough to breed, I would say that we would now be evolving less than ever.
INTREP
I’ve seen Idiocracy. I don’t know if it will be a new species, but they will be exceptionally stupid.
Homo Superior!
Home sapiens sapiens becomes....
Homo Adipos Bardus
Humans are devolving not evolving.
Many of them are asses already.
One type of human is evolving - from Democrat to Liberal - each generation has brought liberal to a new level - how low can one go.
Yes, We can see changes taking place right before our eyes.
Humans are becoming smaller as they are forced into tiny tin box cars. The larger humans are dying out as they are crushed by airbags into child size bucket seats.
Eyesight too is being affected as staring at computer screens causes near-sightedness. Nearly blind bloggers are walking into dangerous areas of big cities where the predators have excellent night vision and the near-sighted are helpless to defend themselves against dying newspaper attacks.
The human mind is evolving too into a highly specialized organ capable of making lightening fast choices from a very limited fast food menue or an election ballot.
A very complicated self defense mechanism prevents the mind from realizing how few real choices are being made.
Finally language is evolving into simplified forms from the older languages that actually used old fashioned sounds called words to communicate. Now the the three large language groups are, Huh?, Duh!, and the declining Yo!
The founder of this theory, Dullwin, called it the Origin of Runts, Punts and Grunts. Doh!
A few asides.
It has been noted that adaptation happens most in lifeforms with the most parasites, diseases, and predators. However, humans have eliminated so many parasites that we are getting immune disorders because of the *lack* of parasites. Human use of antibiotics is creating impressive resistance in some kinds of bacteria. And humans greatest predators are other humans.
Go figure.
There is only one known case of (almost) superior human mutation, which was discovered in Suffolk, England in the early 19th Century.
They were “the hedgehog men of Suffolk”, a family with several sons, all of whom were generally stronger, smarter, faster, and otherwise more capable than the typical person of the time. Unfortunately, from the knees to the navel, they were covered with very rough skin, like that of a hedgehog.
This made mating so difficult that none of them produced offspring and so their line died out.
alas / additional:
Modern life’s pressures may be hastening human evolution
(Human Evolution Speeding Up)
McClatchy | April 8, 2009 | Robert S. Boyd
Posted on 04/08/2009 6:19:32 PM PDT by GOPGuide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225282/posts