Evolution / Adaptation
 

Could it ever be possible that evolution could work against us? We became less superior rather than become more superior or just die off suddenly.

I think it is. ed:

Considering that over the past several months you've evolved into a complete fuckwit, I'm inclined to agree.

LOL

The new Dark Ages are already upon us... cry:

lol i was gonna post something similar to bleu

+1

loney:

Evolution has nothing to do with making us "more superior" rather it makes us more adapt to fight predators off and how well we can live in our environment.

You know, Natural Selection.

Heres some more info Jin...

Link to Wiki Site

Bleuachdu we have to talk some time... biggrin:

Re: Evolution / Adaptation
 

[quote="Jin-Roh":5c3ce]Could it ever be possible that evolution could work against us? We became less superior rather than become more superior or just die off suddenly.

I think it is. ed:[/quote:5c3ce]
I dont think I get you...We didnt become "less superior"...We just provide help to the unfit, its preventing survival of the fittest, and allowing all to survive. With science and technology progressing, it makes it easier to survive.

Evolution cant work "against" us. Evolution is natural selection. Natural selection can be negative towards an individual, but never a population. And evolution refers to a population, never an individual.

Hah.

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[quote=Jotun]I dont think I get you...We didnt become "less superior"...We just provide help to the unfit, its preventing survival of the fittest, and allowing all to survive. With science and technology progressing, it makes it easier to survive.

Evolution cant work "against" us. Evolution is natural selection. Natural selection can be negative towards an individual, but never a population. And evolution refers to a population, never an individual.

Hah.[/quote:2672a]

Well put, for example were loosing our toes becuase we were socks and shoes. So we don't need them to grasp the soil anymore. Were also loosing our body hair becuase we wear clothing.

Its losing you stupid fuck...not loosing

Re: Evolution / Adaptation
 

speak for yourself biggrin: happy:

Re: Evolution / Adaptation
 

Yea, i have a lot of body hair, but it is true. As a population, we have less body hair because our bodies dont have a need for it anymore.

Re: Evolution / Adaptation
 

Its true...since ive been married, my penis and nutsack has been melting away

We're no longer evolving, but rather following a dysgenic trend.

Because of our current system, those people who would normally die as a result of their genetic imperfections or accidents, live to pass on their inferior genes and further pollute the pool instead of making it better. The disease prone and the inferior intellects continuously mix with the more healthy/superior in the pool and I don't think we're benefiting.

Thankfully, research in genetics and medecine will neutralize this threat or at least alleviate the symptoms to some extent. Gattaca will be a reality sooner or later...



Minor edit: another thing you might want to keep in mind is that the more intelligent in society have less children, helping the inferior genes become superior in numbers, which makes them the more prevalent and available, which is bad. Of course, it goes without saying that if we help the weak survive, they become reintroduced in the pool and help keep things the same or worsen it for all of us. Eugenics isn't such a bad idea: look at what it did for the Ashkenazi jews...

what did it do for the ashkenazi jews?

heh heh that rhymes...i kind of agree with solidus' view, but i think it sounds too much like nietzsche...

i dont really know about the idea of reverse-evolution per say

evolution is, in essence, a change in natural properties, often for the benefit of survival, but also, think of our appendix (what was the benefit? there was no benefit, it disappeared because of lack of necesity)...the decrease in overall intelligence i think youre suggesting, jin has to be impossible in the face of our technological advances

but either way, its still a change and is technically evolving



a fascinating perplexitational question, indeed
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Watch out: technological advances do not mean we've evolved intellectually. For all you know, we may only have a handful of brilliant men and women creating new tools and machines to make the rest of us live more pleasant lives: in fact, it's always been this way. Only a few people ever made a real difference: the rest of us are simply along for the ride, though we should always strive to better the pool if only to increase the likelyhood that more geniuses come along to, again, make our lives easier. ;-)

de-evolution, as I like to call it, is possible. That is all the more reason why we have to take evolution into our own hands. Nature is so overrated.

I'm organizing a nerd orgy, apply within.

rock:

EDIT: Ummm..nutsack. Removed. Watch what you post, man.

oOo:

lmfao...Im at my parents at my 12 yr old brother saw that and hes rofling

happy:

lmfao, reminds me of my day trips

the funniest part about that, is that it shows up in the first page of results if you google image search the word "love"

LOL ROFLLL

well yeah eventually human genes will be so bad that everyone will have bad genes, cause in this day and age the weak survive to spread bad genes...

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I loled so hard at this

Watch what you post guys, for fuck sakes.

...and GG on quoting it half a dozen times too. Jesus. rolleyes: