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ukit
Just finished this book, interesting read. What do you think life will be like millions of years in the future?
Aug 26, 08, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink
hedge
I thought the world ends some time after 2010?
- 2012– richardkark
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:34 p.m. – Permalink
Mimio
Irrevocably tampered with by humans.
- Probably– ukit1/2
  humans are natural too.– ribit2/2
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:36 p.m. – Permalink
hedge
I'm not sure "life" can be tampered with by humans, since humans comprise the most influential and important piece of life on Earth.
- Please stop typing.– Mimio1/3
  You know there's a whole field of medicine called "gene therapy".– TheBlueOne2/3
  Bacteria and by far and away the most populous and influential life forms on earth, twat.– mikotondria33/3
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:37 p.m. – Permalink
utopian2
worth buying, then?
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:39 p.m. – Permalink
ukit
Actually, I kind of agree with hedge. It doesn't make sense to distinguish between humans and the rest of nature. It's all part of the same process.
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:42 p.m. – Permalink
BattleAxe
- I trust TheSun's version of future anthropology. That and women's tits, Deidre's Casebook and shit-mongering.– mikotondria31/2
  they never fail– BattleAxe2/2
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:44 p.m. – Permalink
Mimio
Who's distinguishing? I just implied that one species will have altered the path of many or even all of the others.
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 12:44 p.m. – Permalink
Mimio
So, tell us about the book.
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 1:01 p.m. – Permalink
i_monk
The Discovery Channel or BBC (I forget) did a series on this. Silver spiders and octopus monkeys.
- The Future is Wild– i_monk
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 1:24 p.m. – Permalink
ukit
Yeah, that was something different (the TV series), pretty cool too though. But I will admit I am nerd about this kind of stuff.
- me too.– mikotondria3
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 1:39 p.m. – Permalink
morilla
was the book more of a sci-fi take on it? Or was it based on past evolution findings in species and put towards what might happen?
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 1:43 p.m. – Permalink
ukit
No, it's very scientific. And also realsitic about what animals will survive in a world dominated by humans (rats and crows for instance).
- Sounds interesting, I'll have to pick it up,– morilla
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 1:47 p.m. – Permalink
ribit
Did they have an animal that can claw its way out of an expanding large hadron collider wormhole?
- If so, it better evolve pretty quick– ukit1/2
  (how many days do we have left? I need to use up my vacation days)– ribit2/2
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 1:54 p.m. – Permalink
i_monk
There aren't enough things like this. Dinosaurs are boring, I want to see what's coming 40 million years from now.
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 2:12 p.m. – Permalink
TheFatBaron
For a nice piece of fiction, check out "Evolution" by Stephen Baxter
http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-…
It's a bit hard to get into because humanity is involved in such a small portion of the book (logical though, given our relatively limited time on Earth), but it's an interesting read.
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink
ukit
Dougal Dixon is another one who wrote and illustrated books on this subject. I got a kick out of this one when I was a kid:
http://www.amazon.com/After-Man-…
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 2:22 p.m. – Permalink
Llyod
is there any other kind of evolution?
- Only if you count the kind that happened in the past– ukit
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 2:26 p.m. – Permalink
JamalJenkins
just youtube two important crop circles....
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Dog-earAug 26, 08, 2:28 p.m. – Permalink
teleos
It's important to realize that nothing about human evolution has to do with chance and necessity acting on random variation. Even trivial adaptive mechanisms were in place from the start, awaiting the trigger of their expression. Rather, the record of human history has all the hallmarks of a front-loaded program. I tend to believe that the last function in that program has been executed already. We may see some very very trivial adaptive changes, but that will be the extent of it.
- http://video.on.nyti…– Mimio1/4
  Oh I'm well acquainted with Carrol's position on things. He's a Darwinist.– teleos2/4
  it's all a program. Which explains why we find ancient urchins with all of the coding for finger digits. Unexpressed information.– teleos3/4
  http://www.genetics.…
  "The high deleterious mutation rate in humans presents a paradox."– teleos4/4
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Dog-earAug 28, 08, 10:33 a.m. – Permalink
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