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Originally posted by one_small_step
I think you'll find skin pigmentation may have a lot to do with environment the early tribes lived in. Not forgetting everyone is unique.
[edit on 11-7-2009 by one_small_step]
Originally posted by PowerSlave
Actually evolution/adaptation explains our racial differences quite well I believe. However, in this day and age man has used his brain/technology to deal with climate/environmental effects.
We have invented furnaces and air conditioners, clothing, skin/hair products, sun glasses etc etc etc. All of these things negate earths different environments and our adaptations to them. Our need to evolve/adapt physically has lessened.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Well my opinion.
If there ever was genetic manipulation it occurred around 200,000 years ago when modern man first showed up on the fossil record. I think Neanderthal was the first natural Human to evolve.
Originally posted by VitalOverdose
No theres no connection.
There has been extensive DNA historys done on all of earths races and there is link between all of us that started out in Africa.
Originally posted by Bluebelle
reply to post by Amaterasu
Thats a really good point actually about the genetics thing. And it seems like more and more of these 'glitches' are coming up as time goes on. It does seem odd that we'd develop the kind of intelligence we have, while still having all these dodgy genetics.
Originally posted by Bluebelle
Also, just a thought on evolution in general... how can it be that there are something stupid like 2 million species on this planet, yet we are the only one's who seem to have experienced such an accelerated evolution process (as in the last 3000/4000 years or so)?
And with all species, the main 'objective' seems to be reproduction. Which to a point is the same with us... but we want to explore, learn new things etc. Why is that? Why would that level of intelligence where we want to do those things ever be needed?
I might just be being a little thick here, but I cant get my head round the point where some caveman (bad term to use, but I get all the different names mixed up, ha) was sitting in his cave, and decided to draw something. And then decided that he wasnt alone in the centre of the world, and that maybe there was something bigger out there.
But yea, thats not so much to do with my original post but hey, thats what happens when its 2 in the morning and you have nothing else to do, the rambling begins
[edit on 12-7-2009 by Bluebelle]
Originally posted by Bluebelle
Also, just a thought on evolution in general... how can it be that there are something stupid like 2 million species on this planet, yet we are the only one's who seem to have experienced such an accelerated evolution process (as in the last 3000/4000 years or so)?
And with all species, the main 'objective' seems to be reproduction. Which to a point is the same with us... but we want to explore, learn new things etc. Why is that? Why would that level of intelligence where we want to do those things ever be needed?
I might just be being a little thick here, but I cant get my head round the point where some caveman (bad term to use, but I get all the different names mixed up, ha) was sitting in his cave, and decided to draw something. And then decided that he wasnt alone in the centre of the world, and that maybe there was something bigger out there.
But yea, thats not so much to do with my original post but hey, thats what happens when its 2 in the morning and you have nothing else to do, the rambling begins