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Happy Darwin Day!

02/12/2018 11:47 AM

Today is the 203rd anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. According to researchers at Rice University, humans continue to evolve -- let's hope towards continuous improvement.
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Re: Happy Darwin Day!

02/12/2018 11:53 AM

"According to researchers at Rice University, humans continue to evolve"

Funny, I know quite a few that seem to be de-evolving.

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02/13/2018 3:00 AM

Quite

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02/12/2018 5:13 PM

I'd say it's case of arrested development, for some. They can't get past the 1940's.
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02/12/2018 11:54 AM

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02/13/2018 12:54 AM

This image should be filed under :

or some people might view that picture as being racist.
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02/12/2018 12:51 PM

"Improvement" is far too subjective.

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02/12/2018 2:28 PM

One thing for sure, with so much human DNA being expressed (so many of us) it seems like mother nature is getting us ready for a selection event. I kind of expect humans to survive the next major wave of evolution, at least as a relict.

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02/12/2018 3:08 PM

I kind of expect humans to survive the next major wave of evolution, at least as a relict.

There is evidence that at one point, there was a genetic bottleneck where there were as few as 2,000 humans on earth, but was able to recover.

One of these times,... Mother nature may get it right...

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02/12/2018 3:06 PM

Not far from EVOLVING to REVOLVING!

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02/12/2018 6:54 PM

In honour of the day why not pop over to the Darwin Awards website and check out the interesting ways some people have removed themselves from the gene pool.

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02/13/2018 2:09 AM

Strange the allusion to an intelligent agent, e.g. Mother Nature, behind this 'random' process that organises our 3 billion DNA base pairs in the right order time after time.

Seems to me, intelligent design is logical.

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02/17/2018 11:28 PM

One of the biggest hoaxes to be foisted on humanity (we're so gullible)

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