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Human Evolution: Are Humans Still Evolving?
Started by OspreyGirl at 2009/10/25 08:31PM
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2009/10/25 08:31PM
Human Evolution: Are Humans Still Evolving?
OspreyGirl
Request: Is it possible to put aside any hard core Creationist and Evolutionist agendas, and discuss solely the contents of the article?
We all know about Adam and Eve...thank you, drive through!
We all know about claims that people came from apes...thank you, drive through!
Let's keep it civil! Is that possible? No Apocalyptic prophesies or primordial pool pre-human creatures...okay?
WHEW!
Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children, a new study of a contemporary Massachusetts population offers evidence of evolution still in action.
This was funny--
Since the Industrial Revolution, modern humans have grown taller and stronger, so it's easy to assume that evolution is making humans fitter. But according to anthropologist Peter McAllister, author of Manthropology: the Science of Inadequate Modern Man, the contemporary male has evolved, at least physically, into "the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet."
Thanks to genetic differences, an average Neanderthal woman, McAllister notes, could have whupped Arnold Schwarzenegger at his muscular peak in an arm-wrestling match. And prehistoric Australian Aborigines, who typically built up great strength in their joints and muscles through childhood and adolescence, could have easily beat Usain Bolt in a 100-m dash.
Human Evolution: Are Humans Still Evolving?
