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Should evolution not predict the fur stop growing ?
No, you are of the opinion that people are smarter now. We do not know.Actually, we do. IQ tests are very much the same, but it takes a much higher raw score on the same test to get an IQ of 100 now. The scores are curved, with the mean raw score set to 100.
Some of us do not agree that people are smarter now. Some people even believe that intelligence cannot be tested objectively.
Whatever part of intelligence IQ tests determine, has been increasing over the last 100 years. That's just what the data is.
Much of what passes for evolution is merely adaptation or incentivized improvement by means of lifestyle change.
So the human population genome as changed in a few decades to make us all more intelligent ?
How come humans have not evolved into a higher species?
Thanks,
Daniel
Since the fall humans have been de-evolving.
After the creation of Adam and Eve......then the fall...human DNA has been bombarded with mutations that over time have reeked havic on our DNA.
I could use an extra pair of hands.
Actually, humans are continuing to evolve. Tibetans, for example, have a gene that allows them to live at very high altitudes. They acquired this gene in just a few thousand years. And then, there's this:
The results show that divers and non-divers from the Bajau community have similar sized spleens. This helped to show that the enlargement wasn't simply a consequence of regular diving.
But when the researchers compared the Bajau to a neighbouring group called the Saluan, who traditionally lead a farming lifestyle, they found the Bajau had spleens that were 50% larger on average.
The team was also able to find an apparent genetic basis for the size difference. They compared the genomes (the total complement of DNA in the nuclei of human cells) of the Bajau, the Saluan and Han Chinese for areas that had been under natural selection.
"We could ask the question: are there any genetic variants - are there any mutations - that are at a much higher frequency, that have changed their frequency specifically in the Bajau compared to other populations," said co-author Prof Rasmus Nielsen, from the University of California, Berkeley.
The results of this "selection scan" turned up 25 sites in the genome that differed significantly in the Bajau compared to the other groups. Of these, one site on a gene known as PDE10A was found to correlate with the Bajau's larger spleen size, even after accounting for confounding factors like age, sex, and height.
Each of these populations have evolved to become more fit in their respective environments.
What about "as higher in specie to humans, as humans are said to be to apes"?
Genesis is no "recent study" Genesis 6:3 So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years." - "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years." Genesis 6:3
We merely know that people are smarter now then they were generations ago. So the idea that we are degenerating is obviously false.
We merely know that people are smarter now then they were generations ago.
We are not smarter,
mental decline of the
extremely bright in old age.
May I just say, your signature is very amusing, in a good way.
We have learned about splitting atoms, but not how to avoid pointing hydrogen bombs at each other.
We have created plastic footwear, but we are feeding it to turtles.
Measurably so.
You're confusing intelligence with wisdom. Or possibly with ethics.
And, yet they are still humans, not a different species.
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