Is human evolution over?
Heisenberg
2008/10/07 05:47:58
Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over
"Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading genetics expert.
Fathers over the age of 35 are more likely to pass on mutations, according to Professor Steve Jones, of University College London.
Speaking today at a UCL lecture entitled “Human evolution is over” Professor Jones will argue that there were three components to evolution – natural selection, mutation and random change. “Quite unexpectedly, we have dropped the human mutation rate because of a change in reproductive patterns,” Professor Jones told The Times.
“Human social change often changes our genetic future,” he said, citing marriage patterns and contraception as examples. Although chemicals and radioactive pollution could alter genetics, one of the most important mutation triggers is advanced age in men."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article48946...
"Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading genetics expert.
Fathers over the age of 35 are more likely to pass on mutations, according to Professor Steve Jones, of University College London.
Speaking today at a UCL lecture entitled “Human evolution is over” Professor Jones will argue that there were three components to evolution – natural selection, mutation and random change. “Quite unexpectedly, we have dropped the human mutation rate because of a change in reproductive patterns,” Professor Jones told The Times.
“Human social change often changes our genetic future,” he said, citing marriage patterns and contraception as examples. Although chemicals and radioactive pollution could alter genetics, one of the most important mutation triggers is advanced age in men."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article48946...
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sam i am~i am sam! 2008/10/07 19:02:57No





















There probably are mutations still going on but I doubt all of them are very well tracked, unless they're something negative and major (see Downs).
A couple quick points:
1) Out of the millions of fossils found and examined, the number of fossils of "transitional forms" of any creature anywhere is ...ZERO !
2) For evolution to take place- by your standards- a mutation must occur. We can see modern examples of mutations in humans, and they are never considered an improvement. The most familiar is Downs Syndrome.
3) Charles Darwin himself said, " To think that the human eye, with all of it's irreducible complexities, came about by natural selection (evolution) is sheer folly !
4) There are lots more, but I digress. The only thing evolutionists have right is they have properly named the Missing Link. It is and will always be missing.
My current theory is that we can be directed from within ourselves, by conscious thought, choice, and biological programming, but that we also have the capacity to be "inspired"...'
My current theory is that we can be directed from within ourselves, by conscious thought, choice, and biological programming, but that we also have the capacity to be "inspired" or to physically adapt when extreme pressure from the outside environment is present. Not everyone adapts. Conditions permitting, enough do. I like Gerhard de Chardin's concept of an oonasphere, although it has been many years since I read him.
My head hurts.... lol....
P.S: I was kidding and suffering from severe boredom do not by any means assume that I am a demented freak or moron who's head is full of confetti and air...
my bio teacher says the humans will lose the thumbs.
i wish there was a idk selection.
Now is the time of the computers/instant information/internet that will make brains evolve. Human conciseness is evolving and evolution can't stop, because species always adopting to the new environment, new lifestyle, etc.
More likely it will get to the point that by using new technologies, nanotechnology, etc. we will control own evolution. Maybe even with DNA computers/Quantum computers, we will start change quicker by controlling own evolution, because these computers can help with genetics, etc. research. You can't see what does nature, because nature takes few hundred thousand years to change some part of the body, scientist can manipulate DNA, etc. and change anything in one generation. )))) For example make humans live 200+ years. ))))