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Evolution....what's next???

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"Humans today have organs that used to be considered vital, now they are not necessary. The appendix is a perfect example."

Another example is the brain in noted individuals.



NacMac, are you a fortune teller? This post was made almost 4 months before I injured my noggin and 32 months before I re-injured my noggin.:o

Chris



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On a lighter note...

Many times I ponder the theory of evolution. I am not sure what I believe on this topic. However, I do wonder, if the theory is true, what next? Surely we don't believe we are the highest form of life.:P What will humans evolve into in the next million years or so?

Jokesters and science geeks are welcomed in this thread. Just keep it off the damn war!

Chris



For an excellent book on human evolution, check out Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos. Humanity winds up as small-brained, fur-covered fish eater, living only on the Galapagos islands. We get there by going through a bottleneck event involving biological warfare, ecotourism, lesbian artificial insemination, Jacky Kennedy, and Huntington's disease

I think that natural evolution has stopped. We have altered the environment so drastically that the only way for another species to survive is to be economically useful, to be able to live on our waste, and/or to make great pets.

Humans themselves are overpopulated by hundreds, maybe thousands of times, and we are either going to do something amazing with technology (the singularity) or we are going to go through a bottleneck event like that described in Galapagos. I hope we'll make good pets.

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