RE: How do you know God isn't dead?
May 10, 2013 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2013 at 4:31 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(May 10, 2013 at 4:01 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Changing the expression of a particular phenotype hardly seems like actual Evolution, we see differences in bone structure and muscular structure between different races of people but I for one do not believe any of them are more evolved than the others.
That's because no species (or race if we're talking about humans) is 'more evolved' than another species/race.
Would you say that homo sapiens are 'more evolved' than fish? Of course not (try living underwater without equipment). Evolution is about adaption to the environment, not about being more evolved than another species that may or may not exist in a varying habitat.
(May 10, 2013 at 4:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I read somewhere that some people still have, nowadays, neanderthal genes running around.... recessive that have no influence, but they're still there.
I forgot the exact percentage but x% still do have neandathal DNA, which proves that neandathals and Homo sapiens did copulate and produce offspring.
http://www.pnas.org/content/96/13/7117.short
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007...-5121-0_16
Also, I cite wiki reluctantly not becuase of the articles itself but becuase of the journal articles linked at the bottom which are easier to click on than me copy them over on an iPad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal...hypotheses
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