Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever

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Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever

Posted by timothy on Friday November 30, 2012 @08:06PM from the nerdrage-in-three-two-one dept.

Kwyj1b0 writes "In a massive study on genetic variation among humans, researchers found that most changes have occurred in the last 200 generations, too fast for natural selection to catch up. Recent papers show that rare genetic variations have a more drastic effect than previously believed. Another result shows that 'we carry a much larger load of deleterious variants' (as well as positive variants) than our ancestors 200 generations ago."

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Re:Evolution of Virulence Is a Real Threat by ColdWetDog · 2012-11-30 22:19 · Score: 1, Funny

Is this an attempt to Time Cube this thread?

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Re:This this not evolution by AlphaWolf_HK · 2012-11-30 22:34 · Score: 1, Funny

Damn iPad changed my were to we're.
Now see, in my defense I got my iPad for free as a gift. But many people worship these. What if that worship grows?

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Re:This this not evolution by Johann+Lau · 2012-11-30 22:41 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha.
Re:You don't supppose, do you... by Hognoxious · 2012-11-30 23:04 · Score: 5, Funny

200 generations, not 200 years. The difference is a factor of 20 or so.

It's left as an exercise for the reader to make a joke about Pakistan, Utah or Rotherham.

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Re:True! by mrmeval · 2012-12-01 01:49 · Score: 3, Funny

As to the color blindness a young kid who I knew to be smart wanted a job in electronics. I like to rant and was giving him a ride somewhere and I lost it. I did a 35 minute rant on why anyone why would prevent a color blind person from working in electronics needed to be beaten to death. That only a moron would use only the color codes of resistors, capacitors or wires with ...ahem blind faith some other moron didn't load the wrong paint in machine or the wrong value or even the wrong damn part. Add in a lot of expletives. I also mentioned I'd fire anyone who repeatedly trusted something as unreliable as color, that's what test equipment is for.
This was just me doing a rant, I do express myself with some drama and vitriol but I never thought it would have the impact it has. The kid broke with the family business, got a degree and is making more than I am. He can spot miswiring easier than people with ordinary color vision. I'm now going to test if he can spot Army ACU's on a paisley couch among other things. ;)

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Re:This this not evolution by devleopard · 2012-12-01 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Software engineering does not introduce random mutations into the Software
You obviously haven't worked with some of the developers I've worked with

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Re:first by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-12-01 05:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Evidence that evolution has escaped you.....
No, he's just one of those with a much larger load of deleterious variants.

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Re:This this not evolution by painandgreed · 2012-12-01 06:39 · Score: 3, Funny

Evolution can occur on things that aren't coded in DNA. Software, for example.
OMG. I just realized what this means. The human race is being forked!