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Human Brain Still Evolving
Forbes.com ^
| 9/8/2005
| Alan Mozes
Posted on 09/08/2005 5:16:56 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: stm
Quite to the contrary, I believe dementacrat's brains have actually de-volved back to a level even with Australopithecus Well then, g'day mate.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:34:01 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Mike Bates
this is by far the biggest "DUH!" story of the year. is there
anyone out there who actually thinks evolution stops
with our puny little species???
To: Mike Bates
"The ASPM mutation was more prevalent in European-related populations such as Iberians, Basques, Russians, North Africans, Middle-Easterners, and South Asians, and less often found among sub-Saharan Africans, East Asians, and Native American Indians.
The microcephalin variant was also found with higher frequency outside of sub-Saharan Africa."
Interesting.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:36:45 PM PDT
by
Archidamus
(We are wise because we are not so highly educated as to look down on our laws and customs)
To: Ken H
Australopithecus was found in Africa, not Australia
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:37:41 PM PDT
by
stm
To: Mike Bates
How is that anything other than microevolution?
To: Mike Bates
Seriously though, I'm inclined to believe that thousands of years ago humans were actually more intelligent. We may be more technologically advanced now, but some of the accomplishments of the ancients still confound us.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:40:47 PM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(I don't recognize my own country anymore.)
To: Mike Bates
"I think a lot of people might consider humans to be at the pinnacle of evolutionary lineage -- that we have achieved an advanced state as a species, and we have basically become the end-game,"Now there is no way he can know that. It's just wishful thinking, because otherwise he must accept the concept they we might be someone else's pets some day.
To: Lorianne
My concern when talking to some people is that there is reverse-evolution. I favor the stupid-design theory, rather than reverse-evolution.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:46:54 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: humblegunner
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:47:12 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
To: thefactor; PatrickHenry
this is by far the biggest "DUH!" story of the year. is there anyone out there who actually thinks evolution stops with our puny little species??? Yeah, the headline and the reporter's "sexing up" of the story are pretty goofy, but the research findings themselves are pretty interesting.
Most of the genes in most species have achieved what the mathemeticians call a "local optimum", and remain relatively stable for the life of the species. So it's always interesting to find the ones that evolution is still in the process of fine-tuning for optimal function. It's also a glimpse into which genes are more recent "inventions" and among the ones which separated us from our "cousin" species.
To: Junior
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:48:55 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: Mike Bates
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09/08/2005 5:50:36 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(The radical secularization of America is happening)
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:50:56 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Discoveries attributable to the scientific method -- 100%; to creation science -- zero.)
To: humblegunner
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:52:16 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
To: stm
Australopithecus was found in Africa, not Australia How did he get all the way over there?
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:52:23 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Mike Bates
The evolution of the human brain is not quite a done deal, say researchers who've uncovered genetic evidence that man's mysterious gray matter is still undergoing beneficial change.... ...in almost all humans except for the branch of the human species known as the dummus recto-invertus, which suffers from a brain degenerating condition known as recto-cranial inversion
Sufferers of this condition are usually inhabit websites such as MoveOn.org, DU, and DNC.org, constantly engaging in contests with each other to see which among them can literate the most inane and nonsensical rants, often sounding like the padded room residents of the mental illness ward of the average hospital...
Often harmless, they pose littl threat to the public in general, except on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, when they impose their insanity on the general population and society as a whole by voting for members of their own species (ie. Democrats, Liberals, etc.)
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:52:58 PM PDT
by
dirtbiker
("..fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction" Prov 1:7)
To: Mike Bates
Not my brain! Ask anyone here.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:54:42 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: tamalejoe; Mike Bates
How is that anything other than microevolution? Even if you want to try to hairsplit it as "just microevolution", that's *still* evolution. Do you actually have a gripe with the article, or is the "microevolution" red herring just a reflex at this point?
Also, from the article:
The microcephalin mutation's first appearance coincided with the beginnings of man's development of art, music, religious practices, and complex tool-making techniques, the researchers point out. Similarly, the launch of the ASPM mutations occurred with the spread of agriculture, urban settlements, and the first record of written language.
To: LiteKeeper
As Lee Iaccoca says to Snoop in the commercial: That's what I hear.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:56:30 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: Junior
Egad is right!
I have a beeber-like device!
Do you know what that means?
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:57:08 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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