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Old 09-08-2013, 05:04 AM   #121
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The Artic has no land mass under it (unless you mean the northern most areas of the European, Asian, and North American continents within the Artic Circle in which case it is possible), the Antartic was where it currently is well before humanity started moving out of Africa so this is highly unlikely.
 
Old 09-08-2013, 02:43 PM   #122
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The Artic has no land mass under it (unless you mean the northern most areas of the European, Asian, and North American continents within the Artic Circle in which case it is possible), the Antartic was where it currently is well before humanity started moving out of Africa so this is highly unlikely.
I was not talking about what is under it and even then there is some finding like this
https://www.australiangeographic.com...antarctica.htm
but what is hidden under that frozen ice-snow structures - like maybe there are some stuff freezed into ice and covered in snow. I remember on some news something else was found related to evolution.
 
Old 09-08-2013, 03:16 PM   #123
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Sorry I thought you meant artefacts not living things.
 
Old 09-08-2013, 03:29 PM   #124
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Encino Man?
 
Old 09-09-2013, 04:19 AM   #125
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Here's an article that I missed listing earlier:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/08...ed-by-junk-dna
 
Old 09-09-2013, 04:59 AM   #126
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Here's an article that I missed listing earlier:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/08...ed-by-junk-dna
Do you feel like discussing it or are you using this thread to push your own agenda?
 
Old 09-09-2013, 07:16 AM   #127
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Edit: own agenda? "Heaven" forbid links...
 
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Isn't it suspicious that humans 'suddenly' stopped evolving?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/e...-evolving.html
 
Old 10-01-2013, 09:52 AM   #129
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Isn't it suspicious that humans 'suddenly' stopped evolving?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/e...-evolving.html
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I think that we’ve stopped evolving.
It is just his opinion, not an accepted fact.
 
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He does have a point in that natural selection is not a major factor of evolution in the first world countries. Yes, a baby can be saved, even tho they would have normally died.
 
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He does have a point in that natural selection is not a major factor of evolution in the first world countries. Yes, a baby can be saved, even tho they would have normally died.
Yes, but replacing the mechanism of natural selection with something different or totally eliminating it will not stop humankind from evolving.
 
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Yes, but replacing the mechanism of natural selection with something different or totally eliminating it will not stop humankind from evolving.
Well, if they do evolve it is by mutation and mostly not by natural selection.
 
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To me doesn't mater how it happens it's "evolution." And, cant have it without degeneration here watching the pot heat a few steps backwards are inevitable...
 
Old 10-01-2013, 01:29 PM   #134
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Well, if they do evolve it is by mutation and mostly not by natural selection.
There is still selection, even if it's not "natural" enough for you.
 
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There is still selection, even if it's not "natural" enough for you.
You mean war ? I was thinking of that.
 
  


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