2. Behavioral Evolution

(March 31, 2010) Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky lectures on the biology of behavioral evolution and thoroughly discusses examples such as The Prisoner's Dilemma.

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[Zeuts85]

@JungleJargon Honestly, I'm not trying to offend you, but you cannot begin to understand how ridiculous you seem to people who are well-enough educated to understand the theory and evidence for evolution. If you are open-minded enough to consider this a possibility, I hope it will shame you into better educating yourself on the topic. -Peace.

[freethinkerer]

@JungleJargon Note, all scientist would disagree with your religious statement. Evolution is a scientific theory. Look up the phrase, the definition fits, despite how you feel about it.

[cv2603]

@JungleJargon I don't know where you are from, but I guess you're from U.S. since it is the only (developed) country I have visited where there are so many people who don't believe in the evolution theory. I'm Italian and I live in a country where the catholic Church is very influent and where the majoirity of the people are catholic or christian, but even the most ignorant priest wouldn't deny the Evolution.

[JungleJargon]

@IndigoApostle The only problems we have are the result fo mutations.

You still cannot do better. You don't even know what you are talking about.

You work well enough to know that only your Maker is able to remake you again.

[IndigoApostle]

@JungleJargon Why were we made then? and why were we made rather imperfectly? why does our retina attach at the center to form a blind spot, why do our teeth not properly fit in our jaw, why do we have an appendix? If evolution had no merit we would see no vestigial structures.

[JungleJargon]

@IndigoApostle Listen, if everything has to grow into being what it is, there is a limited number of ways that it could happen. Each life form is a marvel of engineering.

It's not like we can just make whatever life form we want, we can't even reverse engineer the ones that do exist!

Each life form is an entirely different unrelated design so it's not that we have a common anscestor, we have a common Maker.

Science has to keep fantasy in check.Objects did not make or refine us.

[JungleJargon]

@itsinmyvein You are jumping in your logic from superficial changes to entire uniform design changes and there is no way to get here from there. There is no comparison between the two.

The possible changes to the genome are limited because the genome is limited and it cannot sustain too many random changes without becoming no longer viable. That is just a fact. We are losing the Tasmanian Devil because of changes to the genome.

[IndigoApostle]

@JungleJargon Thats why all organisms possess Orthologous genes, that can be found across multiple species - like the luteinizing hormone gene found in all primates including humans

[x2a3a4a]

@pkosh1 you may have some indirect benefits like feeling good, or bragging rights ;)

[georgeg0000]

LOL you don't pluralize Pokemon LOL LOL what an IDIOT. HOW did this moron become a PROFESSOR? IT'S POKEON, NOT "POKEMONS" MORON.

[itsinmyvein]

@JungleJargon ''Evolution'' is just an other word for ''long term adaptation''. Adaptation has been proven to be tru and even the most adept scientist of creationisme conceded that adaption was real.

[JungleJargon]

@itsinmyvein The problem is that there is no mechanism for evolution. There is no possible way for one genome of one life form to change into another genome of another life form. "Natural selection" can only select what already has been reorganized by the genome.