Posted on 11/21/2009 12:27:39 PM PST by JoeProBono
The past of human evolution is more and more coming to light as scientists uncover a trove of fossils and genetic knowledge. But where might the future of human evolution go? There are plenty of signs that humans are still evolving.
However, whether humans develop along the lines portrayed by hackneyed science fiction is doubtful.
Clichés dashed
An old cliché has the highly evolved humans of the future sporting large heads to hold their advanced enlarged brains, "but that's nonsense, whole nonsense," said paleontologist Peter Ward at the University of Washington at Seattle, author of "Future Evolution." "If you've ever gone through a childbirth or witnessed one," Ward says, "we're already anatomically right on the edge of how big our heads can go — our big brains have already caused extreme problems in childbirth, and if we had bigger and bigger brains, that'd cause more mothers to die in childbirth, so evolution would select against that......."
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Me?
they really know nothing about human history, some now think apes evolved from man and not the other way around.
Old Startrek series, the criiter that had tohave salt, really in the worst way.
LOL, nothing better than giving a nice loud fart in the stall right next to the guy talking on his cell phone while taking a dump. Yeah pal, explain that one to your client.
Get your paws off my book you....
Yep, polyester suits failed the evolution directive (to the right) the dependency (to the left) formed the evolution format via directive as shown with the electronic dependency and the taking of space by using a urinal for a placeholder for another dependency shows what we have become.
On an average, we are probably getting dumber. These are the people who reproduce the most. Also these are the same people who are too lazy to evolve.
No, I think the Star Trek critter looked like Jackie Ho.
I think the critter in post #7 is a Morlock, a de-evolved, sub-human that feared the light and feasted on the flesh of true humans, from H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”.
That or my former mother in law.
Same difference come to think of it.
Why good little obedient communist muslims....what else?
Oops, post #6 I mean.
Humans aren’t evolving they are devolving.
I’m going with the StarTrek explanation, the girl looks very 1960’s somehow.
“People will be naturally selected for, resistance to stress, pollution and disease.”
It’s been done already, and continues.
Are you hoping to be a dust mite ..??
The guy from 12,006 looks like a tall Mr. Burns from “The Simpsons.”
As to that short and fat gal from 102,006, maybe that could explain some of the sightings of “Greys” and other short “Aliens” if they time travel.
I know some short fat gals, I never realized that they were evolutionary leaps ahead.
Who is that? wow.
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