What I'm tired of is people following Al Gore around because he *says* the politically correct thing to excite the left in America. If you think Al Gore has the environment at heart then I suggest you read up on your Gore family history before your next post about what kind of environmentalist Al exactly is.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000522/silverstein
"archaeologists are doing digs to understand how people lived only 150 years ago, making guesses based on the random bits and pieces of peoples' lives that they find In the future, that won't be necessary, as archaeologists are replaced by anthropologists"
In the US All archaeologists are anthropologists. In Britain I believe that it enjoys more distiiction.
The Human Race as we know it has existed for approximately 100,000 years (Homo sapiens sapiens, and in a more robust form Homo sapiens, for about 300,000 years. It took countless MILLIONS of years of to produce those two species. Natural selection, mutation, genetic drift, gene flow - these are the methods by which ALL species evolve into other species, at least that we can offer support for. Our good doctor seems to want to add cultural evolution as a means of biological evolution. I doubt there are many outside the science fiction world - especially scientists - that would buy into this. After all science is based on observation and evidence. What has this guy observed that would allow him to extrapolate the trajectory of human evolution thousands of years down the line? In all likelihood we will pretty much look the same in a thousand years as we do today. There is no reason to suggest that evolution will distill all the diversity in our genes today into 2 phenotypes in a thousands years. Rubbish.
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What I'm tired of is people following Al Gore around because he *says* the politically correct thing to excite the left in America. If you think Al Gore has the environment at heart then I suggest you read up on your Gore family history before your next post about what kind of environmentalist Al exactly is. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000522/silverstein
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"archaeologists are doing digs to understand how people lived only 150 years ago, making guesses based on the random bits and pieces of peoples' lives that they find In the future, that won't be necessary, as archaeologists are replaced by anthropologists" In the US All archaeologists are anthropologists. In Britain I believe that it enjoys more distiiction.
The Human Race as we know it has existed for approximately 100,000 years (Homo sapiens sapiens, and in a more robust form Homo sapiens, for about 300,000 years. It took countless MILLIONS of years of to produce those two species. Natural selection, mutation, genetic drift, gene flow - these are the methods by which ALL species evolve into other species, at least that we can offer support for. Our good doctor seems to want to add cultural evolution as a means of biological evolution. I doubt there are many outside the science fiction world - especially scientists - that would buy into this. After all science is based on observation and evidence. What has this guy observed that would allow him to extrapolate the trajectory of human evolution thousands of years down the line? In all likelihood we will pretty much look the same in a thousand years as we do today. There is no reason to suggest that evolution will distill all the diversity in our genes today into 2 phenotypes in a thousands years. Rubbish.