Posted on 04/08/2009 6:19:32 PM PDT by GOPGuide
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It's even conceivable, he said, that our genes eventually will change enough to create an entirely new human species, one no longer able to breed with our own species, Homo sapiens.
"Someday in the far distant future, enough genetic changes might have occurred so that future populations could not interbreed with the current one,'' Sussman said in an e-mail message.
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It's also the topic of a new book, "The 10,000 Year Explosion,'' by anthropologists Henry Harpending and Gregory Cochran of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
"For most of the last century, the received wisdom in the social sciences has been that human evolution stopped a long time ago,'' Harpending said. "Clearly, received wisdom is wrong, and human evolution has continued.''
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When he was asked how many genes currently are evolving, Harpending replied: "A lot. Several hundred at least, maybe over a thousand.''
Another anthropologist, John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, "Our evolution has recently accelerated by around 100-fold.''
A key reason, Hawks said, is the enormous growth of the world's population, which multiplies the size of the gene pool available to launch new varieties.
"Today, beneficial mutation must be happening far more than ever before, since there are more than 6 billion of us,'' Cochran said.
The changes are so rapid that "we could, in the very near future, compare the genes of old people and young people'' to detect newly evolving genes, Cochran said. Skeletons from a few thousand or even a few hundred years ago also might provide evidence of genetic change.
"Human evolution didn't stop when anatomically modern humans appeared or when they expanded out of Africa,'' Harpending said. "It never stopped.''
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
“Soon, we will be able to fly to the planet Krypton under our own power!”
What, are you kiddin’ me?
Been doin’ it for years (and boy are my arms tired)!
I guess some of us evolve faster than others. I better keep my mouth shut lest you more highly evolved volk...err...folks decide to exterminate those of us who have been less favored by natural selection!
“”Human evolution didn’t stop when anatomically modern humans appeared or when they expanded out of Africa,’’ Harpending said. “It never stopped.’’”
Any claim by these morons that evolution theory is not racist is laughable. The whole thing relies on the less than perfect compared to the more perfected and the destruction of that which is less than perfect.
Crappy-diem.
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Zatso? There's a bigger market for stupid voters and cannon fodder, isn't there?
Why is saying people in Africa continued to evolve racist?
They have the same ear mutation as 0bama.
That has been a tenet of the Bible: the Fall of Adam.
“And your shall be like God..” is the oldest lie in The Book. Just ask Satan.
And that same lie is coming back.
See evil, think evil, do evil.
“For most of the last century, the received wisdom in the social sciences has been that human evolution stopped a long time ago,’’
That’s why “social sciences” are not real science. They don’t do science.
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