Posted on 07/05/2010 9:13:23 AM PDT by smokingfrog
In part one of NPR's new series about human origins, “The Human Edge,” I look at how much of what makes humans human has actually been borrowed from much simpler creatures.
For example, single celled organisms called eukaryotes figured out sex a billion years before humans did. But evolution has its drawbacks – like hemorrhoids.
Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago has written extensively about the debt humans owe other creatures. He has a popular book on the topic: Your Inner Fish.
One of his claims to fame is that he discovered Tiktaalik, a fish that sports many of the anatomic structures that eventually showed up in humans. The "fishapod" — as he calls it — has a version of what became the human neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist and knee, to name a few.
In fact, Shubin says many of the ailments we suffer from relate to the fact that there's a disconnect between our evolutionary past, and the environments we live in today. A circulatory system that works just fine for an animal constantly on the move can break down for one that's more sedentary.
Once you’re sitting for awhile, blood tends to pool down in those nether regions increasing the risk of hemorrhoids. That's probably why you don’t see too many fish driving 18-wheelers.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
KK, so my jumpy jittery self is going to do fine as I move all over the place. All you calm people . . . darwin is going to get you.
My inner fish died
Those ‘roids are contagious. My husband has one. He is now a pain in my a$$!
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Thanks smokingfrog....single celled organisms called eukaryotes figured out sex a billion years before humans did... Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin... discovered Tiktaalik, a fish that sports many of the anatomic structures that eventually showed up in humans. The "fishapod" -- as he calls it -- has a version of what became the human neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist and knee, to name a few... many of the ailments we suffer from relate to the fact that there's a disconnect between our evolutionary past, and the environments we live in today. A circulatory system that works just fine for an animal constantly on the move can break down for one that's more sedentary... blood tends to pool down in those nether regions increasing the risk of hemorrhoids.Nether regions, mwa-ha-ha-ha... |
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Bull****. The people telling you that are the same people telling you that the stegosaur, which American Indian ancestors called Mishipishu ("water panther") and which the original artists of the various petroglyph images you see of them e.g.
clearly saw in real life, died out 65,000,000 years ago.
By the same standards I'll probably be about 700,000 years old myself on my next birthday.
The basic hard, cold reality is that evolution and evoloserism and all of the fairytale time schemes devised to support evolution are dead.
I don't get it. How does blood pooling in the lower extremities have anything to do with hemorrhoids?
When the Boy Scouts taught us to rest during hikes with our feet elevated, they never mentioned anything about 'rhoids.
Never felt ‘rhoid rage?
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