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artu
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posted May 03, 2014 11:45 AM |
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"Evolution of the mind" is a much more speculative subject, since it's both subjective and normative. The amount of detail and precision they have today, on evolution of life would suprise you. And it's not just based on paleontology and bones (although they have millions of them fitting a perfect pattern and timescale). They have genetics, geology, bio-geography, various sub-disciplines and of course biology itself.
You have no problem reading about the Romans or British kings, so I dont think your actual line of thought is "why should I care about the past." It's what I already mentioned above, which would be the only thing to call inferior thought if we would have to call anything that.
Good luck on your book, I know the feeling 
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Steyn
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posted May 30, 2014 03:00 PM |
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OhforfSake said:
5) I don't think anything major has happened.. I mean we've a pretty slow mutation rate as far as I'm aware. But I'm not well versed in history though.
How about lactose tolerance?
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OhforfSake
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posted May 30, 2014 05:23 PM |
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But we've been drinking milk for more than 100 years? I'd have imagined those intolerant would have a higher likeliness of being sorted away at the early adaptation period.
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artu
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posted May 30, 2014 05:31 PM |
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I wonder how would different planets with less or more gravity have an evolutionary effect on our anatomy, if we settle on them for long enough.
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mvassilev
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posted May 30, 2014 05:35 PM |
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If we had the technology to settle on other planets, we'd probably be able to bio-engineer ourselves and evolution wouldn't be a factor.
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artu
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posted May 30, 2014 06:07 PM |
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Way to speculate on a speculation Mvass The two are irrelevant technologies though, so not necessarily. Besides, there would probably be a working class in every ghetto planet (or every planet's ghetto) that wouldnt be able to afford that kind of stuff.
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Steyn
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posted June 02, 2014 07:55 PM |
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OhforfSake said:
But we've been drinking milk for more than 100 years? I'd have imagined those intolerant would have a higher likeliness of being sorted away at the early adaptation period.
What I meant is that even the homo sapiens is still evolving, as shown by our aquired ability to digest lactose. Although I don't know if this adaption is 'recent' enough 
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artu
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posted June 02, 2014 08:03 PM |
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Edited by artu at 20:04, 02 Jun 2014.
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Nobody denies that level of evolution is still happening, but will the gene pool of some humans isolate and transform away from us on such a scale, given enough time, they will be no longer called homo sapiens (if they jump on a time machine and come back to present day, they wont be able to mate with us) is another question.
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