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Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving
Oleg Alexandrov writes "Two genes involved in determining the size of the human brain have undergone substantial evolution in the last 60,000 years, researchers say, suggesting that the brain is still undergoing rapid evolution. The discovery adds further weight to the view that human evolution is still a work in progress, since previous instances of recent genetic change have come to light in genes that defend against disease and confer the ability to digest milk in adulthood."
Meh.
Remember that the bell curve is symmetric. :)
Yeah, with whites at one end and blacks on the other. ;)
Now flame me away...
As for Bush, he is very smart. It is all an act of being dumb. When he was governor, he did not mistakes when giving speeches. What happened was Bush decided to win the presidency, he needed to win the south. So he became more like them. :p
Seriously, Bush is not a dummy. He went to Yale. If he was so stupid, how did he get into Yale? And why is everyone bitching when a black gets into The University of Michigan School of Law? How is it different?
Now Troll me....
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
No. The real procreation is going on at the shallowest ends of the gene pool. It is those on welfare and the generally lazy who are squeezing out pups like there's no tomorrow. Those of us with jobs and high-profile careers don't have the time properly devote to a gaggle of vermin, so we're less likely to produce them (that, and illigitimate kids can get expensive for rich folk once the lawyers get done, for poor people its just another welfare check or EIC credit).
They ought to tax you for every kid you have, and increase the fee with each child. Hell, I'd throw in free voluntary sterilization. It's not like we're going to run out of humans any time soon.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I'd love to see a guy like you walk over into the bad area of town and get made a fool out of by the "stupid people". You wouldn't stand a chance. Seriously, do you even walk outside? Or do you only hang out with other overpriveledged snobs?
Oh, and as far as welfare goes, it's 2% of the US population, which is far less than the current unemployment rate. Or maybe you are saying that Americans are more intelligent than other, more socialist, countries? right... Try getting your facts from someone other than Rush.
The thing that hampers evolution is the defining the age for the universe at 13.7 billion years old. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/map_discover y_030211.html
All the sudden you do not have enough time for certain astronomical things to happen like white dwarfs, black holes, and what not. http://www.wheatonma.edu/Academic/AcademicDept/Ast ronomy/TBarker120/Feb14/ClassNotes.html
When our sun is having it's beginning around 10.3 billion years ago and the needed cycles to produce heavy elements to form planets like the Earth, evolution and Big Bang as people have postulated them, do not have enough time. You can clearly start to argue that things like intelligent life further along than us probably is false due to a time factor, not to mention the earth should not be possible because you have not had enough stars go supernova to create all the heavier elements required.
I remember growing up and people postulating that the universe was trillion of years old, like 2.4 trillion. We see that this was false, but that amount of time is necessary for Big Bang and evolution to work as postulated. The question is what is really true and what is the cosmology make-up? Evolution is not possible because the Earth should not exist, yet it does. I like how people love Einstein but seem to forget the words of wisdom he had.
I eat Karma for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's why I don't have any.
part of it is attitude
before welfare reform in the US, there was the smart person attitude of "I'm too poor to have more kids" and dumb people attitude of "I gets me sum more welfare money if I has dem kids"
now all those big families before welfare reform want big families of their own just because it doesn't feel like a family without a swarm of kids around.
Unfortunately, these days, I think you're right, it's not stupid people that are breeding, but far too often it's religious people (and I think many of these people lack free thinking - like that silly Catholic belief that dogs don't dream and the devil makes them twitch in REM sleep... shah, right - that's as inane as the Jehovah's Witnesses age of the earth and dinosaur bones were placed there by satan - who makes up this stuff?).