Is human evolution finally over? (Looks like we're stuck)

The Observer (UK) ^ | Sunday February 3, 2002

[Countyline]

Thanks for the graphic ... it is a good one...

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To: Dallas

47 posted on 2/2/02 8:55 PM Pacific by coteblanche
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[LostTribe]

>This should interest you---

Thanks! I wrote a rebuttal there (#32).

[TransOxus]

Actually, it is always flat from ground zero. One must not assume that there are no flat planets in this vast unknown Universe.

[rwfromkansas]

This is just an easy way out to explain why there is no evidence of human evolution going on right now.....after almost supposedly continual change.

This theory is nothing short of an attempt to put down one of the most obvious facts that goes against evolution....where is it today?

[rwfromkansas]

people have grown taller due to better health....and even if it was due to evolution, it would have been from microevolution, which nobody should seriously contest.

[rwfromkansas]

"even salary level is applicable towards evolution..."

You sound like a social darwinist....

[Archaeus]

Mankind will one day participate in an evolutionary paradigm shift such as it's never witnessed.
Hold your hand before your face and take a good look.

Can you say larval stage?

[DensaMensa]

>That's evolution...

No, that's simple accommodation.

[nonliberal]

This has to be the end. There are too many stupid, lazy, irresponsible jackoffs in society. I refuse to believe that those characteristics constitute "survival skills."

[skraeling]

That's evolution...

Evolution is when a cat turns into a dog, not just when a cats fur gets thicker.

[.30Carbine]

But hope is good. Keep hope alive. ; )

Ah, but where and in what are they putting their hope?

[varon]

Hence, the blending of our genes which will soon produce a uniformly brown-skinned population.

I can see it happening now in the US with migration from south of the border, forced integration etc.
It appears as though a government policy of coercion to inter-mate is in place.

[TigersEye]

Ah, but where and in what are they putting their hope?

Now don't go confusing things. For some people having hope in anything is a major step in the right direction. ; )

[LostTribe]

>That's prestidigitation...

Only if the suckers don't see the man behind the curtain.

[DensaMensa]

So, you don't think that the acquistion of knowledge, and the development of new techniques based on innovation and creativity is a form of evolution...?

No, that's simple accommodation using skills already at hand.