[blam]

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[JCEccles]

Intelligent design at work, micro scale.

Dawkins will not be pleased.

[SkyDancer]

Why are there no transitional species - if Evolution is true there should be some species that are not complete ... like Democrats, forinstance .....

[farmer18th]

So the guys and gals of 50,000 years ago were a totally different species? (Where, by the way, are they getting the genome data for that generation?)

We're spending too much money on these wannabe scientists.

[MonroeDNA]

Some religeous idiot will do a bible quote.

[adorno]

Darwin’s fingerprints can be found all over the human genome.

Would it not be equally true to say that intelligent design has been invoked in humans in order to allow him/her to adapt to the environment? In other words, if an environment is very sunny, the Designer would've changed the genetic composition of the people in that environment in order that those people could tolerate the temperatures. Likewise, for people who reside in colder climates. Intelligent design could also have been invoked in areas where certain types of foods are available and not in others?

Intelligent design may be looking out for humans and all other species whenever they wander out of their current environments. I know what the theory of evolution says about survical of the fittest, but could not an intelligent designer be changing us and all other species for survivability in any new environment to which any species may venture?

[Ironclad]

If you buy into the premise of the book "The Bell Curve," from about 15 years ago, it appears we citizens of the USA are evolving furiously, and most of the important evolution has taken place since World War I. Our meritocracy, which the USA has been (more or less) since roughly the end of WWI, is producing a much higher percentage of intelligent folk than has ever been seen in the history of any human society. At any rate, news like this shouldn't be considered particularly surprising, since it seems to be rediscovered every 5 - 10 years.

[Elpasser]

Hmmm. More evolutionary claptrap.

Let's run it through the mechanics of evolution and see if it makes any sense. The docile, agricultural humans had an evolutionary advantage such that their docile, agricultural offspring outcompeted the offspring of the cunning, tough hunter/gatherers, who died off en masse leaving the meek to inherit the earth.

Sorry, guys, doesn't wash. Evolution requires a LOT of death and survival of the fittest. (Darwin: "Nature is red in tooth and claw"). And if the offspring of BOTH survive together and can ultimately interbreed, evolution hasn't occurred at all.

Evolution always comes down to speculation and comes up short on evidence.

[From many - one.]

Neat.

Disease resistance is something one would expect but the protein metabolism thingy is a bit counter-intuitive.

Maybe more meat as humans became better hunters as they got smarter?

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lester Moore]

From the article above we get: "This analysis suggested that around 1800 genes, or roughly 7% of the total in the human genome, have changed under the influence of natural selection within the past 50,000 years."

From other scientists we get

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nearly 99 percent alike in genetic makeup, chimpanzees and humans might be even more similar were it not for what researchers call "lifestyle" changes in the 6 million years that separate us from a common ancestor.

...Clark emphasizes that a study like this cannot prove that the biology of humans and chimps differ because of this or that particular gene. "But it generates many hypotheses that can be tested to yield insight into exactly why only 1 percent in DNA sequence difference makes us such different beasts," he says. link here: [http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec03/chimp.life.hrs.html],

Is it not amazing that modern man is genetically closer to chimpanzees than he is to man 50,000 years ago.