Dolphins are evolving
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Actually aren't humans genetically weaker now than previous generations ? I don't recall where I heard that but modern medicine weakens the gene pool.(allows those (genetically)sick that should die to live and reproduce)Aardvark said:
Advances in medicine mean that we're getting weaker as a species physically. Genetically undesirable disorders are being passed down that previously would have been weeded out. The upside of this is that mental attributes that would have died off are remaining in the gene pool. Thanks to these, we have more individuals, though genetically inferior physically, working in the field of biology and medicine, leading us towards a future when we can take control of our own evolution, for better or for worse.sneakypenguin said:
I dont think theyre gonna take over the world why?
At this rate by the time they do become intelligent enough to challege us the polution from all of our years of well polution will destroy them. MWAHAHAHA.
At this rate by the time they do become intelligent enough to challege us the polution from all of our years of well polution will destroy them. MWAHAHAHA.
Time to poison the water, if we don't we will be gang raped by dolphins and they will outsmart us in all the fields of sciene and soon we will be their slaves, and we will slowly de-evolve into what the dolphins were and the process will repeat a million times over!
Good thing I don't take medicine.sneakypenguin said:
So what you're saying is that Darwinism is as dead as chivalry is, so to speak?
Reminds me of a David Attenborough documentary on dolphins. It was amazing - he acted out sign language on an underwater TV screen that trained dolphins promptly followed (i.e. put the blue ball into the red bucket).
After that, footage was shown of a country (escapes me which one at the moment) where the fishermen have had a symbiotic relationship with the dolphins for so long that when one dolphin gives the signal, the fishermen wade into the water, holding their nets in a semi-circle, and the dolphin group herd a shoal of fish into the waiting nets. The fishermen get a huge haul, and the dolphins get mouthfuls of the fish swimming away from the net! You have to wonder about how that started.
The third thing that amazed me on the program was an apparently recently developed fishing technique, where one dolphin (taken in turns) swims to the sand at the bottom of the shallows, and uses their nose to dig up and disturb the sediment, making it into almost a "wall" (the fish see it as such). It then herds the fish into the wall, frightening them into trying to jump over it - resulting in them leaping out of the water and into the waiting open mouths of the rest of the dolphin pod.
Did anyone else manage to catch this when it was on?
After that, footage was shown of a country (escapes me which one at the moment) where the fishermen have had a symbiotic relationship with the dolphins for so long that when one dolphin gives the signal, the fishermen wade into the water, holding their nets in a semi-circle, and the dolphin group herd a shoal of fish into the waiting nets. The fishermen get a huge haul, and the dolphins get mouthfuls of the fish swimming away from the net! You have to wonder about how that started.
The third thing that amazed me on the program was an apparently recently developed fishing technique, where one dolphin (taken in turns) swims to the sand at the bottom of the shallows, and uses their nose to dig up and disturb the sediment, making it into almost a "wall" (the fish see it as such). It then herds the fish into the wall, frightening them into trying to jump over it - resulting in them leaping out of the water and into the waiting open mouths of the rest of the dolphin pod.
Did anyone else manage to catch this when it was on?
Taking medicine wont hurt you personally just later generations.Yellow Lad Unleashed said:
They way I see things the universe is in a continuous state of entropy and degradation. So I find darwinism hard to fully believe. Yes traits and alleles come about and change in species as their environment changes, but thats not evolution thats adaptation.
2 humans mate 50 generations later the offspring should be genetically weaker, due to mutations and genetic factors. But I could just be talking about nothing here, I'm a logistics nut not biology
So long and thanks for all the fish! So sad it should come to this! Didn't look at the link yet but I HAD to do it...
Hmm, tools you say?
We should teach them to do something useful, like.. cook, or feed themself while in captivity! =D
We should teach them to do something useful, like.. cook, or feed themself while in captivity! =D
It's like Terminator, but with with living sea creatures instead...
It's the Rise of the Dolphins!
It's the Rise of the Dolphins!