Future Evolution
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- hedge0
I thought the world ends some time after 2010?
- Mimio0
Irrevocably tampered with by humans.
- hedge0
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.Mimio
- You know there's a whole field of medicine called "gene therapy".TheBlueOne
- Bacteria and by far and away the most populous and influential life forms on earth, twat.mikotondria3
- utopian20
worth buying, then?
- ukit0
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.
- BattleAxe0
- I trust TheSun's version of future anthropology. That and women's tits, Deidre's Casebook and shit-mongering.mikotondria3
- they never failBattleAxe
- Mimio0
Who's distinguishing? I just implied that one species will have altered the path of many or even all of the others.
- Mimio0
So, tell us about the book.
- i_monk0
The Discovery Channel or BBC (I forget) did a series on this. Silver spiders and octopus monkeys.
- ukit0
Yeah, that was something different (the TV series), pretty cool too though. But I will admit I am nerd about this kind of stuff.
- morilla0
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?
- ukit0
No, it's very scientific. And also realsitic about what animals will survive in a world dominated by humans (rats and crows for instance).
- i_monk0
There aren't enough things like this. Dinosaurs are boring, I want to see what's coming 40 million years from now.
- TheFatBaron0
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.
- ukit0
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:
- JamalJenkins0
just youtube two important crop circles....
- teleos0
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…Mimio
- Oh I'm well acquainted with Carrol's position on things. He's a Darwinist.teleos
- it's all a program. Which explains why we find ancient urchins with all of the coding for finger digits. Unexpressed information.teleos
- http://www.genetics.…
"The high deleterious mutation rate in humans presents a paradox."teleos
- ukit0