Elephants, Human Ancestors Evolved In Synch, DNA Reveals

National Geographic ^ | 7-23-2007 | Hope Hamashige

[blam]

"Plus they would be too traumatized to copulate."

You're kidding? The guys will begin fussing over the girls the first night there, lol.

I'm thinking of a seed population of between 500-5,000 humans to begin the re-population efforts. We need real humans, not frozen 'seeds', etc.

Sperm and egg 'donations' may be a good idea for the re-population of 'food' animals.

Enough 'candidates' will be pre-selected that enough will survive to populate this effort. 'The facility' will have the means to locate and transport the 'qualified' to 'the facility.'

[blam]

"You better get a better plan. The first one ain’t gonna work."

Well, I'm the supreme leader and you just blew your chance to be 'selected.' (ahem)

Now you can go to 'your facility' and spend the rest of your life with a security guard and a janitor-centifruge operator.

[blam]

See how this works:

If I were a billionaire I'd do something similar with the human population...always have a list of humans who fulfilled a list of qualifications such as:

1. High IQ
2. Free of genetic defects.
3. Pass a DNA test that would detect recessive disease problems
4. etc.
5. (female applicants only) Has the hots for and desires to copulate with the 'supreme leader.'

(There, fixed that)

[sodpoodle]

Oh Yeah - if the Yellowstone caldera blows - I can see that working.

LOL!

If you are joking - you’re funny;O If series- you’re nuts.

I’m going with #2!!!!!!!!!!

[blam]

"I’m going with #2!!!!!!!!!!"

Do you know how to operate a centrifuge?

[sodpoodle]

I’ll work on the janitor!

[blam]

"I’ll work on the janitor!"

LOL.

Click on the Dark Ages link on this post, that was a catastrophic time too.

Enlightened Medicine Found In Dark Ages

[sodpoodle]

“””that was a catastrophic time too”””

Interesting that ‘societies’ without cell-phones, radios etc., managed their daily lives based on what they had been taught and what they were eager to learn. Also interesting that ‘religion’ was far more practical - I’m not convinced it was propaganda as much as learned hygiene (eating pork was probably a health hazard until the 20th century)

Not sure that we are as curious and capable of such resourcefulness. Witness Katrina.

[sodpoodle]

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/researchers-find-giant-prehistoric-tusks/20070726183309990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

AP
Posted: 2007-07-27 11:01:07
Filed Under: Science, World
ATHENS, Greece (July 26) - Researchers in northern Greece have uncovered two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed Europe more than 2 million years ago - tusks that could be the largest of their kind ever found

[blam]

Saw that yesterday, thanks.

[blam]

"Witness Katrina."

Casualties.

[Altura Ct.]

Tim Conway’s Elephant Story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

[SunkenCiv]

(eating pork was probably a health hazard until the 20th century)

Human flesh and pork are practically indistinguishable; I've come around to the view that is what led to the prohibition on eating pork among the Jews, and later among the Muzzies.

[SunkenCiv]

D@mn. I guess you get to be supreme leader because you called it. I was too slow. ;’)

[blam]

"Human flesh and pork are practically indistinguishable; I've come around to the view that is what led to the prohibition on eating pork among the Jews, and later among the Muzzies."

I think it relates to the fact that pigs and humans have to eat the same thing. Cows, horses and etc can digest cellouse and humans and pigs can't. During a famine people would be pretty upset if you were the owner of pigs...whether you were the king or not, hungry people will kill you because they know you're feeding the pig something you could be eating.

Religious leaders probably recognized the potential for conflict and worked this prohibition into the religious texts.

Also, cattle are 75% more efficent at digesting cellouse than horses and archaeologists use the ratio of horse/cow bones to detect drought/famine conditions, especially out on the steppes.

[SunkenCiv]

I think the food laws begin with Leviticus 11 — animals which go on the cloven hoof and chew their cud, and not animals which lack one or the other, are permissible; more detail is in Deuteronomy 14:3-6.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

The six year long volcanic winter and 1000-year-long instant Ice Age that followed Mount Toba's eruption may have decimated Modern Man's entire population. Genetic evidence suggests that Human population size fell to about 10,000 adults between 50 and 100 thousand years ago.

I was about to posit that the most likely common reason for the simultaneous split of elephant and primate lines (obviously a few orders of magnitude older than the event you mention) would be some catastrophic event that isolated groups. Weather-induced seems more likely than geographic, but who knows.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

The most widely held theory about what happened then is that climate change led to the expansion of grasslands in Africa, which fragmented habitats and spurred many species to evolve.

The problem with this theory would seem to be that normal climate change happens so frequently, but the important evolutionary branches less so.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

They were killed by polar bears who used them as flotation devices.

algore told me so. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

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