What environmental pressures do humans currently have? To me it seems that the only environmental pressure humans have that will prevent humans from reproducing is being a retard. We currently are promoting all humans to breed even if they do not have preferable traits.
Humans have evolved slightly even in the last 100 years. Our jaws are getting smaller, because we don't eat so much tough food (it's all processed and carved up), which is why a lot of people now have to have their wisdom teeth pulled nowadays. They don't fit into our mouths. Also, the average height and IQ of the global population rises every year, so IQ tests have to be re calibrated every couple of years to compensate. ^-^
There is also research going on into something that I can't for the life of me remember the name of but it results in very dense bones due to a genetic mutation that are virtually, just like the film of the same name, unbreakable. Hyper-dense bone syndrome? No that's not it. Damn, wish I could remember, it's really amazing.
Too add to a little to your example about lactose intolerance, I saw a television show about the lost viking settlement in Greenland. In it, it told a story of first contact, I believe gathered from native American tribal folklore. The viking Greenlanders sailed to North America on a mission to forage for supplies. Being Europeans, they had brought cattle and the taste for milk with them to Greenland. On meeting their first tribe in North America, traded milk for furs with the tribe. Continued.
That night the Native Americans who had drank the Viking's milk became violently ill because of lactose intolerance. With their lack of knowledge of such things, the Native Americans thought the Vikings had tried to poison them, and therefore attacked them in the morning. This force the Vikings to flee, and thus this genetic adaptation you refer to in your video had historical consequences.
I just got done reading "The God Delusion" and Dawkins went into a bit of detail concerning the evolution of adults producing lactase. It should be noted, too, that there are still many groups of people who did not come from pastoral tribes, and since their ancestors did not drink milk, they for the most part cannot consume milk without getting sick.
People in the West take for granted that drinking milk as an adult is not natural!
You would love the humour of the late/great Bill Hicks (RIP) from my country, concerning Evolution never stopping. I don't know if you've heard of him or not.
You should really check him out, great texts (in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French), great music. King of the Bongo is certainly representative of his music. Check out "Proxima estacion... Esperanza".
I most certainly will. My current taste in music is aweful, and most anyone who knows me will affirm that statement. I'll give you a recommendation as well, so that you will understand what I'm talking about. Check out
In my accent (unless I'm the only one), it's oddly pronounced like "melk".
I'm becoming a bit self-conscious about it. If I wanted to, I could justify it by saying it's a throwback to its Germanic roots ("melkan"), but that would probably be bullshit.
As you are aware, environmental pressures are not the only agents that can act to alter gene frequencies. Now since most bottles these days are easy open, I doubt there's much reproductive advantage to an appendage that aids in the opening of bottles. However, if an appendage were to develop the ability to vibrate at a high frequency, this type of evolutionary adaptation could confer significant reproductive advantages.
"Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from back injuries to fallen arches."
for the record, this is a serious issue - lots of stuff out there on the genetics of viruses and bacteria evolving, by the hour, faster than a pharmaceutical company ad blitz. alsoo, an excellent video about Craig Venter's survey of open ocean DNA - thousands of new species per barrel of seawater! glad you applied the idea to us monkeys in your movie. five stars from nitro. ps I am pretty sure there are some ainu on honshu or maybe kamchatka, but as usual I could be wrong.
seems to me two legged mammals are cheating "god" & ourselves, "moving the eight ball" by: changing the physical environment, changing the chemical environment, destroying habitat, and favoring some species over others while extinguishing all the predators( ie there is a damned subsidized welfare cow hiding behind nearly every sagebush in the entire western Usa). The result is the greatest mass extinction since the cretaceous. yahhoo we rule the world aint we cool. save the elk! shoot a cow!
Evolution is pretty much driven by the ability to survive and the ability to reproduce. These days with less natural enemies, modern medicine and so on the ability to reproduce has gained a big emphasis. This obviously isn´t all about the physical ability to reproduce, in modern societies many decide not to have several or even any children, a genetic suicide in a sense. Just thought I´d say a bit more about the new environmental pressures. :)
I have no idea why I maximize your videos. It's all audio, so there's absolutely no reason to do that.
BTW: The lactose tolerance gene is more prevalent in the West. The Far East populace lacks lactose tolerance more than the Europeans folks. Strangely enough, the Japanese are generally lactose tolerant while the Chinese are generally not. Concurrent evolution in different gene pools? Mayhaps... mayhaps...
Oh, I was wrong about Japanese folks being lactose tolerant. My wife and her family must be weird genetic mutants or something, because it lists Nihonjin as 90% lactose intolerant. They do have the folded eyelids of Caucasians, so I guess it's not surprising.
I think the answer probably lies in the fact that her family is from the northern end of Honshu. The Ainu to the north, in Hokkaido, were actually Caucasians. You know what they say about humans, "They love to interbreed."
Does she have a moustache? LOL Just kidding, you do know that Ainu women (not all, since it was outlawed for a long time) tattooed moustaches on their faces, right? Your wife's taller than I am, and I was the tallest in my class. Strange, there must be Ainu blood in her...
"you do know that Ainu women (not all, since it was outlawed for a long time) tattooed moustaches on their faces, right?"
No, I didn't know that. I'm reading the Wiki article right now. They are saying Ainu are not genetically Caucasians. Damn genetics! It keeps upsetting my previously obtained knowledge. Thinking is hard when you are hung over!
The same lineage as people in Tibet, which makes me think "What The Fuck?" I assumed the Chinese and Tibetans were closely related. Also, there's some talk of them being somewhat related to the aborigines of Australia.
Can you copy and paste an entire Wiki article into your reader? It's rather interesting.
I think it's mostly mixed bloodlines now, kind of like with the Native Americans.
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I'll send it as a message, so I can use the entire weblink without all the silliness with the elimination of periods and backslashes and related what have yous.
I'll send it as a message, so I can use the entire weblink without all the silliness with the elimination of periods and backslashes and related what have yous.
What environmental pressures do humans currently have? To me it seems that the only environmental pressure humans have that will prevent humans from reproducing is being a retard. We currently are promoting all humans to breed even if they do not have preferable traits.
Stonegoal 8 months ago
Humans have evolved slightly even in the last 100 years. Our jaws are getting smaller, because we don't eat so much tough food (it's all processed and carved up), which is why a lot of people now have to have their wisdom teeth pulled nowadays. They don't fit into our mouths. Also, the average height and IQ of the global population rises every year, so IQ tests have to be re calibrated every couple of years to compensate. ^-^
lilika01 3 years ago
"My mother never breast fed me.She told me that she only liked me as a friend."-- Rodney Dangerfield
iFightDaily 3 years ago
intresting "videos"... keep the good work
flexian 3 years ago
There is also research going on into something that I can't for the life of me remember the name of but it results in very dense bones due to a genetic mutation that are virtually, just like the film of the same name, unbreakable. Hyper-dense bone syndrome? No that's not it. Damn, wish I could remember, it's really amazing.
mungbeanman 3 years ago
Google: 'Yale Insogna dense bones', it should be the second link you get.
zweefvlieg 3 years ago
That's exactly what I was after. Thanks for that.
mungbeanman 3 years ago
Too add to a little to your example about lactose intolerance, I saw a television show about the lost viking settlement in Greenland. In it, it told a story of first contact, I believe gathered from native American tribal folklore. The viking Greenlanders sailed to North America on a mission to forage for supplies. Being Europeans, they had brought cattle and the taste for milk with them to Greenland. On meeting their first tribe in North America, traded milk for furs with the tribe. Continued.
politicomark 3 years ago
That night the Native Americans who had drank the Viking's milk became violently ill because of lactose intolerance. With their lack of knowledge of such things, the Native Americans thought the Vikings had tried to poison them, and therefore attacked them in the morning. This force the Vikings to flee, and thus this genetic adaptation you refer to in your video had historical consequences.
PS - Another excellent video.
politicomark 3 years ago
I never heard of that story, thanks.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Wow, thanks for this video!
I just got done reading "The God Delusion" and Dawkins went into a bit of detail concerning the evolution of adults producing lactase. It should be noted, too, that there are still many groups of people who did not come from pastoral tribes, and since their ancestors did not drink milk, they for the most part cannot consume milk without getting sick.
People in the West take for granted that drinking milk as an adult is not natural!
On1onKn1ght 3 years ago
Hey Chick:
You would love the humour of the late/great Bill Hicks (RIP) from my country, concerning Evolution never stopping. I don't know if you've heard of him or not.
Best wishes, beautiful ...
- Brandon
brandonthyname 3 years ago
Your voice is evolutionary music to my ears :)
simplydaft 3 years ago
Very good except that lactose is the sugar and lactase is the enzyme for breaking it down.
Walabio 3 years ago
I know, I put this in the description box right after I uploaded it, listened and heard myself say lactoze iso lactase...
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
I forgot about that in the descriptionbox. ¡Sorry!
Walabio 3 years ago
Manu Chao!!! Wow... you have an awesome taste in music!
eddygoombah 3 years ago
Thanks.
Had no idea he was popular in the US?
My favourite song of this album isn't in the video, 'Homens'.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
I like 'King of the Bongo', but I must confess I'm not too hip, it's the only Manu Chao song that I know!
freetaught 3 years ago
You should really check him out, great texts (in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French), great music. King of the Bongo is certainly representative of his music. Check out "Proxima estacion... Esperanza".
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
I most certainly will. My current taste in music is aweful, and most anyone who knows me will affirm that statement. I'll give you a recommendation as well, so that you will understand what I'm talking about. Check out
The Simpsons spider pig AMAZING techno remix
it's here on youtube. :)
freetaught 3 years ago
Losh!!! That indeed is not good. You need a serious musical 'overhaul'!
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Manu Chao, Amy Whinehouse are my favourites at the moment. (well, RHCP and Manu Chao always are actually)
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Manu Chao kicks ass and the Peppers are a staple in any collection.
mconn2112 3 years ago
I saw Manu Chao on an episode of the Henry Rollins Show. Kick ass is all I can say.
mconn2112 3 years ago
environmental pressures hmm...
i think creationist should put pressure on monkeys to start giving birth to new mini creationist people, by praying.
"oh lord, i pray to you, command these innocent little monkeys, to give birth to a mini creationist"
if it works you will have a mini creationist army to fight us Evolutionary and it will prove praying works.
creationist start praying now.
:-)
love peace and happiness
gautamagaroo 3 years ago
i love how you say milk :D
BrianJunglist 3 years ago
I say milk... I think...
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
In my accent (unless I'm the only one), it's oddly pronounced like "melk".
I'm becoming a bit self-conscious about it. If I wanted to, I could justify it by saying it's a throwback to its Germanic roots ("melkan"), but that would probably be bullshit.
I can't tell what you're doing, Abc.
MishaVargas 3 years ago
Norwegians and danes spell and pronounce it "melk".
If you live in a part with many originating from Scandinavia, that could be the explanation.
Scotland had norse settlers and in some parts they still hold viking festivities.
BTW In Sweden we have a slightly different spelling and pronounciation (more german), which is all, essentially, the same language (scandinavian).
Rationellskeptiker 3 years ago
As you are aware, environmental pressures are not the only agents that can act to alter gene frequencies. Now since most bottles these days are easy open, I doubt there's much reproductive advantage to an appendage that aids in the opening of bottles. However, if an appendage were to develop the ability to vibrate at a high frequency, this type of evolutionary adaptation could confer significant reproductive advantages.
premed411 3 years ago 2
LOL, oh, how I wish, I wish.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
From a PBS article,"Walking Tall":
"Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from back injuries to fallen arches."
We need more evolution here.
maurieer 3 years ago
for the record, this is a serious issue - lots of stuff out there on the genetics of viruses and bacteria evolving, by the hour, faster than a pharmaceutical company ad blitz. alsoo, an excellent video about Craig Venter's survey of open ocean DNA - thousands of new species per barrel of seawater! glad you applied the idea to us monkeys in your movie. five stars from nitro. ps I am pretty sure there are some ainu on honshu or maybe kamchatka, but as usual I could be wrong.
windham666 3 years ago
Excellent video. Might we have a link to the video which this a response to?
ace625 3 years ago
Fixed, but I did actually upload it as a response to his video. YT must be slow today...
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
I was unable to post a link:
Here's the title of the article I read about this:
Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution
Some Europeans and some Africans are lactose tolerant independently, suggesting a convergent evolution.
dreamy2 3 years ago
thanks for the information, will check it out.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Just read the article. Interesting, but not totally unexpected that cattle-raising people who drink milk would develop the mutation independently.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
seems to me two legged mammals are cheating "god" & ourselves, "moving the eight ball" by: changing the physical environment, changing the chemical environment, destroying habitat, and favoring some species over others while extinguishing all the predators( ie there is a damned subsidized welfare cow hiding behind nearly every sagebush in the entire western Usa). The result is the greatest mass extinction since the cretaceous. yahhoo we rule the world aint we cool. save the elk! shoot a cow!
windham666 3 years ago
KILL THE MONKEY!!!
PrinceLoser66 3 years ago
Please, please, no killing of monkeys on my comment section, take it outside! ;)
Besides, this monkey is dangerous and I doubt it'll go willingly...
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
dangerous?!?! all I eat is fried priests and bananas!
windham666 3 years ago
LOL!!!! fried priests..... LMAO!!!
calhoun81670 3 years ago
you get within 25 megabytes of the monkey and he'll zapp you with lightning from his weaponized eye phone, ya big loser.
windham666 3 years ago
Within a minute you contradict yourself... LOL @ the weaponised iphone.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Evolution is pretty much driven by the ability to survive and the ability to reproduce. These days with less natural enemies, modern medicine and so on the ability to reproduce has gained a big emphasis. This obviously isn´t all about the physical ability to reproduce, in modern societies many decide not to have several or even any children, a genetic suicide in a sense. Just thought I´d say a bit more about the new environmental pressures. :)
Itslvle 3 years ago
I guess my genes don't want to be reproduced then. Oh my, my genes are suicidal!!!
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
interesting.i did not know that about our ability to drink milk.thank you.
NemoUtopian 3 years ago
YW.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Aaahhhh the accent--the warm bath or YT!-A great video-well thought and presented.
nicanicabad 3 years ago
*hug*
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
I have no idea why I maximize your videos. It's all audio, so there's absolutely no reason to do that.
BTW: The lactose tolerance gene is more prevalent in the West. The Far East populace lacks lactose tolerance more than the Europeans folks. Strangely enough, the Japanese are generally lactose tolerant while the Chinese are generally not. Concurrent evolution in different gene pools? Mayhaps... mayhaps...
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
Interesting data, where did you get it?
It could be the case, yes.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
anthro (dot) palomar (dot) edu (backslash) adapt (backslash) adapt_5 (dot) htm
Oh, I was wrong about Japanese folks being lactose tolerant. My wife and her family must be weird genetic mutants or something, because it lists Nihonjin as 90% lactose intolerant. They do have the folded eyelids of Caucasians, so I guess it's not surprising.
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
Thanks for the information. Is she really a Nihonjin? Hontou ni? Lactose tolerant and folded eyelids...
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Un, hai. Watashi no okusan wa Nihonjin desu. Watashi wa gunjin.
Actually, I used to be in the Air Force, but my Japanese has gotten rusty... I need to get that Rosetta Stone program.
Anyways, she's also pretty tall for a Nihonjin no onna. She's about 5'8".
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
I think the answer probably lies in the fact that her family is from the northern end of Honshu. The Ainu to the north, in Hokkaido, were actually Caucasians. You know what they say about humans, "They love to interbreed."
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
A sou ka, wakarimasu.
Does she have a moustache? LOL Just kidding, you do know that Ainu women (not all, since it was outlawed for a long time) tattooed moustaches on their faces, right? Your wife's taller than I am, and I was the tallest in my class. Strange, there must be Ainu blood in her...
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
"you do know that Ainu women (not all, since it was outlawed for a long time) tattooed moustaches on their faces, right?"
No, I didn't know that. I'm reading the Wiki article right now. They are saying Ainu are not genetically Caucasians. Damn genetics! It keeps upsetting my previously obtained knowledge. Thinking is hard when you are hung over!
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
They're not? Oh, I thought so too, since they are the original Japanese, and I thought they came to Japan via Russia...
So, what are they, genetically speaking?
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
The same lineage as people in Tibet, which makes me think "What The Fuck?" I assumed the Chinese and Tibetans were closely related. Also, there's some talk of them being somewhat related to the aborigines of Australia.
Can you copy and paste an entire Wiki article into your reader? It's rather interesting.
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
No need to C&P, it'll read an entire web page without fail (sometimes lol)
Can you give me the link?
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
from what i've read ini the past, there re no orignal Ainu any longer. I need to see that article too.
nicanicabad 3 years ago
I think it's mostly mixed bloodlines now, kind of like with the Native Americans.
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I'll send it as a message, so I can use the entire weblink without all the silliness with the elimination of periods and backslashes and related what have yous.
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago
Oh thank you! I'd read there were none left the poor hairy Ainu!
nicanicabad 3 years ago
I'll send it as a message, so I can use the entire weblink without all the silliness with the elimination of periods and backslashes and related what have yous.
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago