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Posted by: MadMax888
Lamp, if you want to see evolution in progress, I'd suggest you look into bacteria and viruses. The Common Cold, for example.
Oh yeah its cool to see how our body deals with viruses and adapts to combat them

  • 01.02.2013 2:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: MadMax888
There's no such thing as "fully evolved." Being fully evolved implies that evolution has an end-game, or a purpose.

You don't "see" evolution any more than you "see" erosion that turns a river into the Grand Canyon.
Well right now all these defects are solved with medicine and not genes because a lot of people are still born with defects.
In my opinion, medicine has inhibited the process of Natural Selection a bit, in the sense that things that should die are usually kept alive. Then again, the beneficial changes may be going unnoticed. Hell, some people are even being born without wisdom teeth these days.


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Posted by: MadMax888
Lamp, if you want to see evolution in progress, I'd suggest you look into bacteria and viruses. The Common Cold, for example.
Oh yeah its cool to see how our body deals with viruses and adapts to combat them
And similarly how the viruses change in order to have an effect on our bodies.

  • 01.02.2013 2:20 PM PDT

Medicine sucks. I had a cough for over a year and they just finally figured out what was wrong. I did an MRI and they said I had sinus polyps. -blam!- hell, and I was taking cough medicine the whole time which did nothing.

  • 01.02.2013 2:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: lightlamp2

Posted by: MadMax888
There's no such thing as "fully evolved." Being fully evolved implies that evolution has an end-game, or a purpose.

You don't "see" evolution any more than you "see" erosion that turns a river into the Grand Canyon.
Well right now all these defects are solved with medicine and not genes because a lot of people are still born with defects.
In my opinion, medicine has inhibited the process of Natural Selection a bit, in the sense that things that should die are usually kept alive. Then again, the beneficial changes may be going unnoticed. Hell, some people are even being born without wisdom teeth these days.
That is true. If someone with a defect was kept alive and then had kids then they can pass that on. I know this personally as i have a condition where i would off be dead about 50 years ago. And now if i decide to have kids there is a chance they can have this defect too.

  • 01.02.2013 2:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: NinjaLord77
Medicine sucks. I had a cough for over a year and they just finally figured out what was wrong. I did an MRI and they said I had sinus polyps. -blam!- hell, and I was taking cough medicine the whole time which did nothing.
I have had a few stupid doctors in my time in hospital

  • 01.02.2013 2:29 PM PDT


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Posted by: NinjaLord77
Medicine sucks. I had a cough for over a year and they just finally figured out what was wrong. I did an MRI and they said I had sinus polyps. -blam!- hell, and I was taking cough medicine the whole time which did nothing.
I have had a few stupid doctors in my time in hospital


I also have weak bones which they don't know the cause of so I'm gonna see a bone specialist in a few weeks.

  • 01.02.2013 2:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: NinjaLord77
Medicine sucks. I had a cough for over a year and they just finally figured out what was wrong. I did an MRI and they said I had sinus polyps. -blam!- hell, and I was taking cough medicine the whole time which did nothing.
I have had a few stupid doctors in my time in hospital


I also have weak bones which they don't know the cause of so I'm gonna see a bone specialist in a few weeks.
Is your healthcare overall good in the US since you pay for it?

  • 01.02.2013 2:38 PM PDT

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  • 01.02.2013 2:40 PM PDT


Posted by: lightlamp2

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Posted by: MadMax888
There's no such thing as "fully evolved." Being fully evolved implies that evolution has an end-game, or a purpose.

You don't "see" evolution any more than you "see" erosion that turns a river into the Grand Canyon.
Well right now all these defects are solved with medicine and not genes because a lot of people are still born with defects.
In my opinion, medicine has inhibited the process of Natural Selection a bit, in the sense that things that should die are usually kept alive. Then again, the beneficial changes may be going unnoticed. Hell, some people are even being born without wisdom teeth these days.
That is true. If someone with a defect was kept alive and then had kids then they can pass that on. I know this personally as i have a condition where i would off be dead about 50 years ago. And now if i decide to have kids there is a chance they can have this defect too.


So as genes are passed on with a recurring defect, like the removal of wisdom teeth, people are now being born without wisdom teeth all together? This is evolution. A trait/defect is continually passed down in the genes to the point where it becomes commonplace.

  • 01.02.2013 2:45 PM PDT


Posted by: lightlamp2

Posted by: NinjaLord77

Posted by: lightlamp2

Posted by: NinjaLord77
Medicine sucks. I had a cough for over a year and they just finally figured out what was wrong. I did an MRI and they said I had sinus polyps. -blam!- hell, and I was taking cough medicine the whole time which did nothing.
I have had a few stupid doctors in my time in hospital


I also have weak bones which they don't know the cause of so I'm gonna see a bone specialist in a few weeks.
Is your healthcare overall good in the US since you pay for it?


I get free care from the University of Michigan, I wasn't working and they decided that my spine and bone problems were bad enough for them to treat me. I got free spine surgery which would've cost a whole lot. My healthcare is good I'm not sure about other people.

  • 01.02.2013 2:46 PM PDT

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  • 01.02.2013 2:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: lightlamp2

Posted by: MadMax888

Posted by: lightlamp2

Posted by: MadMax888
There's no such thing as "fully evolved." Being fully evolved implies that evolution has an end-game, or a purpose.

You don't "see" evolution any more than you "see" erosion that turns a river into the Grand Canyon.
Well right now all these defects are solved with medicine and not genes because a lot of people are still born with defects.
In my opinion, medicine has inhibited the process of Natural Selection a bit, in the sense that things that should die are usually kept alive. Then again, the beneficial changes may be going unnoticed. Hell, some people are even being born without wisdom teeth these days.
That is true. If someone with a defect was kept alive and then had kids then they can pass that on. I know this personally as i have a condition where i would off be dead about 50 years ago. And now if i decide to have kids there is a chance they can have this defect too.


So as genes are passed on with a recurring defect, like the removal of wisdom teeth, people are now being born without wisdom teeth all together? This is evolution. A trait/defect is continually passed down in the genes to the point where it becomes commonplace.
Sounds confusing. How we can get rid of wisdom teeth but not defects

  • 01.02.2013 2:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: lightlamp2
Sounds confusing. How we can get rid of wisdom teeth but not defects
Because we aren't killing off all the people with defects, so they can still pass on their genes. I'm not saying we should, but that's why.

  • 01.02.2013 2:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: lightlamp2
Sounds confusing. How we can get rid of wisdom teeth but not defects
Because we aren't killing off all the people with defects, so they can still pass on their genes. I'm not saying we should, but that's why.
We don't kill people with wisdom teeth and some are born without them

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Posted by: lightlamp2
Sounds confusing. How we can get rid of wisdom teeth but not defects
Because we aren't killing off all the people with defects, so they can still pass on their genes. I'm not saying we should, but that's why.
We don't kill people with wisdom teeth and some are born without them


Mostly because their parents didn't have them or carried the recessive gene for having no wisdom teeth and by random chance their child had no wisdom teeth.

Evolution is mad, random, and chaotic. And it's almost never drastic. It'd take millions of generations to get from an ape to a human, whereas it'd only take a generation to give a child blue eyes or small hands or big feet or height or anything along those lines. If that child passes on his genes his child may have blue eyes and the lot, and if that continues sooner or later maybe the entire species would have blue eyes. (Doubtful, though, seeing as how more people have brown eyes. It's far more likely we'll all have brown eyes in a few thousand years. Assuming we don't die off before then.)

  • 01.02.2013 3:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: lightlamp2
Sounds confusing. How we can get rid of wisdom teeth but not defects
Because we aren't killing off all the people with defects, so they can still pass on their genes. I'm not saying we should, but that's why.
We don't kill people with wisdom teeth and some are born without them


Mostly because their parents didn't have them or carried the recessive gene for having no wisdom teeth and by random chance their child had no wisdom teeth.

Evolution is mad, random, and chaotic. And it's almost never drastic. It'd take millions of generations to get from an ape to a human, whereas it'd only take a generation to give a child blue eyes or small hands or big feet or height or anything along those lines. If that child passes on his genes his child may have blue eyes and the lot, and if that continues sooner or later maybe the entire species would have blue eyes. (Doubtful, though, seeing as how more people have brown eyes. It's far more likely we'll all have brown eyes in a few thousand years. Assuming we don't die off before then.)
Well it would have to be random since it its a biological process. Its just hard to wrap my head around. But thanks for the explanation

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
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Whyyyyyy do you not understand, Chris?!?!?! Natural selection leaves the survivors strongerrrrrrrrr!!!

  • 01.02.2013 3:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sh1n1ng Wolf
Whyyyyyy do you not understand, Chris?!?!?! Natural selection leaves the survivors strongerrrrrrrrr!!!


Except natural selection kind of lost meaning to humanity since we have no natural predators aside from killing each other because we're all jackasses.

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Posted by: lightlamp2
Sounds confusing. How we can get rid of wisdom teeth but not defects
Because we aren't killing off all the people with defects, so they can still pass on their genes. I'm not saying we should, but that's why.
We don't kill people with wisdom teeth and some are born without them


Mostly because their parents didn't have them or carried the recessive gene for having no wisdom teeth and by random chance their child had no wisdom teeth.

Evolution is mad, random, and chaotic. And it's almost never drastic. It'd take millions of generations to get from an ape to a human, whereas it'd only take a generation to give a child blue eyes or small hands or big feet or height or anything along those lines. If that child passes on his genes his child may have blue eyes and the lot, and if that continues sooner or later maybe the entire species would have blue eyes. (Doubtful, though, seeing as how more people have brown eyes. It's far more likely we'll all have brown eyes in a few thousand years. Assuming we don't die off before then.)
Well it would have to be random since it its a biological process. Its just hard to wrap my head around. But thanks for the explanation


Because the passing on of genes is random, as is the result. However, if both parents have a similar gene the child has a much higher chance of getting that gene than if only one parent had it.

  • 01.02.2013 3:24 PM PDT

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  • 01.02.2013 3:24 PM PDT

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  • 01.02.2013 3:26 PM PDT

Posted by: Sh1n1ng Wolf
Natural selection leaves the survivors strongerrrrrrrrr!!!
not really. "offspring" is more accurate than "survivors" and "more likely to reproduce in a specific enviroment" is more accurate than "stronger."

  • 01.02.2013 3:27 PM PDT
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Are you sure about that OP? Many people on this forum don't have brains.

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Posted by: Sh1n1ng Wolf
Natural selection leaves the survivors strongerrrrrrrrr!!!
not really. "offspring" is more accurate than "survivors" and "more likely to reproduce in a specific enviroment" is more accurate than "stronger."


If every organism with trait X lives and every organism without trait X dies, the species evolves to (mostly) have trait X. It'd take many, many generations for that though.

But yeah, it's not always who lives and who dies.

  • 01.02.2013 3:29 PM PDT