'Western man has stopped evolving'

he needs to visit the south side of chicago...

(or even KC)

There's plenty of genetic mutation in New Jersey. If only we could bring the populations subject to genetic mutation and to natural selection together...

Evolution continues apace.

O, man in the developed country is stopping evolving,but i think in the developed country is still evolving! do you thins so?

I think people in developed countries continue to evolve. Technology has an impact on evolution, but it can't stop it.

i dont think Technology is a factor of evolution. i think man in developing countries must evolve faster than who in developed country.

Could anyone even recognize evolution while it were happening? It's not as though we're going to sprout an extra arm to handle a coffee cup while working the keyboard. Suppose some have a better tolerance for dirty air than others. If that tolerance is passed from generation to generation, are you just going to call it luck?

The argument (I'm sure, without bothering to click the link) is that without selective pressure there is no evolution. In the Western World, except for severe deformity there are virtually no impediments to procreation. Almost everyone reaches adulthood, almost everyone is capable of reproduction. Not saying I buy it, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that that's the contention.

Now, when I was getting my biological precepts poured into my head, evolution was defined as "change in frequency of alleles in a population over time." Given global travel, varying reproduction rates between populations, mixing of previously isolated ethnic groups -- and the inevitability of ongoing mutation -- there must be new alleles coming about and changes in their distribution throughout human populations, so based on this definition evolution must be ongoing...

Right on, Roger, right on. You too, patiodog.

according to esoteric philosophies in nine thousand years when the planets align with the sphinx again all matter will return to pure thought in the mind of God anyway and the cycle will restart so why worry? Nine thousand years is just around the corner....

With evolution in the title of this thread, I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell ya -- that none of our gang of creationists has shown up here yet.

Are we talking evolution or devolution?

I believe that even with technology and medical discoveries there is evolution taking place. I don't have facts, just observations, such as fewer children today having wisdom teeth or only one or two wisdom teeth. Would have to look up if there are stats on that.

Also, at one time I heard fewer people are being born with an appendix. There are likely changes to our insides that are less obvious for now.

How far back does "Western Man" go? We have gotten taller than or founding fathers, right? Were't the bed shorter a hundred years ago?

That's because of better nutrition, and medical care.

The superficial discrediting of the science of astrology is due to this very principle as I explained long ago on the Questions Game.

Mr Jones must have become desperate for publicity to bring up this mouldy old chestnut. It just shows how stuck in a groove some so-called scientists are.

I need a lot of motivation to click one of these slow loading links, too.

Not evolution, but grotesque deformaties politically are appearing amongst the far left. Well, maybe it's a bit physical deformation too....

Interesting POV.

Interesting!!?? It was in the comics at least 50 years ago. It was in the Cadbury's Smash ad as well.

I said interesting, not novel. What crawled up your patoot?