When Humans Faced Extinction

BBC ^ | 6-10-2003 | Dr David Whitehouse

[ffusco]

Perhaps it's happenning now....

[Springman]

Bump fo later.

[ffusco]

All Science can do is observe behavior. Electrons and neutrons are attracted to each other. It can not explain why they do this, only the conditions where this is likely to happen.

It is plausable to state that God makes electrons and neutrons attract, but that is not in the realm of what is provable scientifically. As for me I don't think God is a micromanager, his rules as observed by physics thus far are inviolate.The Newtonian God view seems to fit the available data.

[PatrickHenry]

Electrons and neutrons are attracted to each other.

I think you meant to say electrons and protons.

[blam]

"There's an alternate theory that allergies are the result of our environment being too clean. "

Yup. I've read some of those stories. Seems a child will aquire the majority of their immunity before they're six years old. It has even been suggested that kids that play in the dirt and are raised around a lot of animals are healthier, overall.(...and that must occur before the age of six)

[CobaltBlue]

I read about it in something like Time or Discover, but a quick google search using as search terms

overlapping photos faces attraction

turned up this link which has links to other studies.
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/nsfall02/labpacketArticles/draft2-whataretherulesofa.html

[Pharmboy]

Well, the Black Death wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Genetic bottlenecks were major drivers in evolution, for whatever reasons...

[CobaltBlue]

>>My first thought on reading this was that perhaps those 2,000 were that group.<<

Fascinating concept, which would make a great fantasy, folk tale, or maybe even science fiction story.

[CobaltBlue]

>>I believe God created evolution.<<

Me, too. I have no idea what the percentages are, but there are a lot of us.

[Skywalk]

Doesn't the multi-regional theory still have an "out of africa" element? That several races could develop nearly simultaneously and yet all be capable of producing fertile offspring is an impossibility.

However, native members of precursor humans could have mixed with homo sapiens to produce homo sapiens sapiens.

[CobaltBlue]

>>It all boils down to what one wishes to believe.<<

Ah, ah, ah! Cheating! You can't pick the part you like (small pool of original Homo Sapiens Sapiens) and ignore the rest (exactly WHY the genetic evidence points to a small pool of original Homo Sapiens Sapiens).

Tsk, tsk.

[blam]

"Well, the Black Death wasn't exactly a walk in the park. "

Yup. And that was not the only one either. Apparently they went on and on and...

In fact, here is one example in my hometown.

Church Street Graveyard

[wafflehouse]

see tagline:

[PatrickHenry]

PLACEMARKER

[CobaltBlue]

>>"It is thought that we split off from chimps 5-6- or eight hundred million years ago..." used to disguise a no-fact fact. It is thought-- By whom? Sez who?<<

I don't concede that your f'rinstance is a real example, but let's agree to discuss matters in a broad and general manner.

I don't agree - for a second - for a nanosecond - that a heavy-duty research study reported in a peer-reviewed journal has ANY hands waving. On the contrary, they are so dense with footnotes as to be almost indigestible.

Which leads me to suspect that everything you know about the subject you learned in a college survey lecture class, where it's sort of not expected for the professor to provide footnotes during his lecture, and, indeed, more likely than not that your lecturer was a grad student or associate prof who doesn't know very much, or maybe you learned it on TV.

I studied anthropology undergrad and worked as a research assistant to the head of the department, and, sister, if you tried that "hands wavink" bullony on my former boss, he'd blow you out of the water.

[blam]

"see tagline:"

It's true.

[CobaltBlue]

I became interested in graveyards myself recently due to my interest in native plants. They are storeyards of native plants, many of which are extinct or rare anymore.

There are a lot of reasons to be interested in graveyards - architecture, folklore, geneaology, you name it. Things go in and never come out.

[blam]

"I became interested in graveyards myself recently due to my interest in native plants. They are storeyards of native plants, many of which are extinct or rare anymore."

I've read that, specifically roses. There's a company, Heirloom Plants, I think, that sells seeds to old varieties of food plants. (I can't get a good tomato anymore)

[CobaltBlue]

>>I can't get a good tomato anymore<<

Dunno if you can grow them down in 'Bama, but Brandywines are superb. Red Brandywines, the pink ones and the black ones aren't as good. They do great in Northern Virginia.

In New Orleans, I used to grow Creoles.

[blam]

"Dunno if you can grow them down in 'Bama, but Brandywines are superb. Red Brandywines, the pink ones and the black ones aren't as good. "

Probably not. I never heard of them. I don't know what kind my mom used to grow, they were as big as Beefeaters but, they weren't Beefeaters.