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The Fish Within Us

What is most surprising is not that we once lived in the sea, but that we are still evolving.

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  • Posted By: rcbrooks @ 04/19/2008 1:19:55 PM

    I grow weary of the misuse of the term "mutation" in place of "adaption." The truth of the matter is that the human body has remarkable adaptation, more so than most animals. While we do have different genetic proficiencies, the ability of any one person to adapt to new climates, resources and conditions is remarkable. Further, many tolerances we develop on our way to adulthood are not passed on genetically to our children, but rather we pass on our adaptability. Make sure to research the differences.

  • Posted By: franceslady @ 03/24/2008 11:21:45 AM

    This marvelous passage reminds me of an American series be popular with Chinese youngsters here, it is named Heroes. It is not only a fiction stories, but also hiden some underlying rational imaginations. We are different, as one member of all the human beings. The instance is not unique, which is about all the animal globe, what we can find the various species exist in the world. Despite of the same line from one biological system, also a lot of branches follow behind. So the human beings is not exception. This is really possible to happen in our bodies as different races.

  • Posted By: ankleese@student.ysu.edu @ 02/29/2008 10:06:45 AM

    I enjoyed this article because as a college undergraduate, I have been told by various professors that we humans are evolving to be more similar. The reasoning behind their beliefs is that due to increased communication between people across the globe and the resulting gradual increase of multiracial offspring, physical features that distinguish race will disappear. This article gave me a different perspective in respect to how thus far we have been genetically mutating to adapt to the different environments of the planet; therefore, our genes as a human species have undergone extreme variances. As to whether technology and communication advances will change the course and speed at which the human race is diversifying is interesting and debatable.

  • Posted By: Think the right way @ 02/05/2008 9:07:20 PM

    I am so happy that someone has the courage to do studies like this. These studies are a resounding proof how the social BS rhetoric "that everybody is the same" crap we have been force fed is just that crap.
    There are diffrences in humans and that's the way nature want's it to be. And whether we like it or not it will evolve no matter what the social ramifications are. Certain races have certain traits. An even now it's happening right underneath our own skins. People need to face up to this and find a way to use the different strenghts of each race and use them for positive changes. But we need to understand that there are some things that will weaken us all by cross breeding with other races. There are reasons nature on the whole (as there are individual exceptions) does not look or react favorably to cross breeding.Example;Chimpanzees and benobos. 2 distinct different types of apes.Outwardly look similar, most people would say they are chimpanzees.But benobos are a distinctly different pygymy variety of chimpanzee. Behaviorly they do not hunt in groups and have the same aggressive tendencies of chimps.As chimps will hunt down other types of apes and kill and eat them as carnivores.Not something people like to accept or hear.(Not politically correct to say the truth nowadays) Benobos have not developed this way and are much more peaceful creatures who do not have this war-like trait.They do not cross-breed and if so would be develop a genetic trait which would be detremental to the species of both distinctly different animals. In humans when we cross-beed we do pick-up the good and bad traits of both races to the weakening of our race of humans overall. Face it up to the fact that some races are more intelligent than others and some races are phisically stronger than others. Some races are more tolerant of others and some aren't. it is the balance of nature. If left to the social rights people there would be 50 billion people on this earth and no one would die. Of course the earth would be a dead planet and life as we know it would cease to exist. We are meant to be just who we are as mean as that sounds. War and death and disease for lack of better words "cull the herd and keep things in balance". So we just need to learn to keep things in balance, or make no mistake "nature will do it for us as it happening right now even to you".

  • Posted By: dred37 @ 01/25/2008 8:06:53 AM

    Perhaps we will evolve beyond the idea that we know everything.

  • Posted By: dred37 @ 01/25/2008 8:05:32 AM

    Maybe we will evolve past the illusion that we know everything.

  • Posted By: rightlyso @ 01/24/2008 6:27:05 PM

    Tell me that I'm genetically different from George W. Bush

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 01/24/2008 2:44:59 AM

    I don't believe in this evolution B.S.

  • Posted By: mike1964 @ 01/22/2008 1:43:34 PM

    No wonder I feel like going for a swim.

  • Posted By: Saltydog_0 @ 01/21/2008 5:35:08 PM

    It makes sense that we have been evolving to be less alike for the past 10,000 years due to differences in culture and climate. But it seems to me that our trend towards differences would have come to a schreeching halt and, in fact, reversal over the past 100 years due to advances in transportation and dissolution of rigid borders. It's my uneducated opinion that the term race will be irrelevant within a thousand years as we become more homogenized due to the world shrinking at an astounding rate. I, for one, welcome an evolution from warring races to peaceful mutts.

  • Posted By: fillybuster @ 01/19/2008 7:24:28 PM

    We can start by valuing the diversity we have with us today.

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