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The Human Species.
Warning! This topic contains EVOLUTION. Leave if you don't believe!!
Replies: 37Last Post Aug. 15, 2009 3:39pm by swishone
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Speciation [spee-see-ay-shon]--- The process by which new species evolve from old ones. It's a process that happens over millions of years by natural selection.

Lets say a species is separated by a major barrier (water, mountains, sheer distance). They are separated into two populations that can no longer interbreed. Over the years, their gene pools become more and more different due to random genetic mutations. Also, the environmental pressures on the two populations are different, so different traits are advantageous to them.

Over millions of years, new species evolve from the old one by natural selection.

Ex. Darwin's Finches. The finches of the Galapagos islands. A flock of finches was blown out to see by a large storm, they happened to land on the Galapagos islands. What makes the Galapagos islands unique is that each island has a different environment.

The food sources on each island were different. As you can see, the finches' beaks adapted to the different food sources.

A new species is officially created when the two populations no longer recognize each other as the same species, and they are no longer willing to interbreed.

So, just looking at the human population, it's obvious we began to speciate. You have to be blind not to see it...

See?

However, we weren't separated long enough to completely diverge into different species. Obviously, we still interbreed.

However, we were separated long enough for there to be major differences in our appearances and in our cultures. Although there is still racism, I'm amazed by humankind's progress. Normally, when this sort of thing happens in nature, one population will kill the other one in order to protect their niche. We still have not completely come to terms with our differences, but we're well on our way. Every decade, we see more and more interracial couples. We are beginning to antispeciate the world.

DO YOUR PART IN ANTISPECIATING THE HUMAN RACE! GET OUT THERE AND INTERBREED!

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Over the million years or so, do you think humankind will mesh into one megarace?

Do you think that's good or bad?

(Please note: If that we did become a megarace, the human population would have less genetic variation. So one epidemic of a serious disease could kill us all, because no one would be immune.)

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Jews have been getting circumcised from birth for 5000 years, yet they are still born uncircumcised.

I just disprooved Evolution.

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Yay!! IM all for interracial couples and stuff like that!

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Quote: from Fortis Obscurum at 7:22 pm on June 25, 2009

Jews have been getting circumcised from birth for 5000 years, yet they are still born uncircumcised.

I just disprooved Evolution.



yeah suure.
genes were not removed/altered in the act of circumcision.
if you chop of a mans leg and then get him to impregnate a woman, the child will not have a gene missing for his leg. if you continue this it will continue to not make a difference.

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Quote: from BleedingSteelWings at 2:54 pm on June 25, 2009

Quote: from Fortis Obscurum at 7:22 pm on June 25, 2009

Jews have been getting circumcised from birth for 5000 years, yet they are still born uncircumcised.  

 I just disprooved Evolution.



yeah suure.
genes were not removed/altered in the act of circumcision.
if you chop of a mans leg and then get him to impregnate a woman, the child will not have a gene missing for his leg. if you continue this it will continue to not make a difference.


surely they were being ironic?

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Quote: from Nerdandproud at 9:44 pm on June 25, 2009

Quote: from BleedingSteelWings at 2:54 pm on June 25, 2009

Quote: from Fortis Obscurum at 7:22 pm on June 25, 2009

Jews have been getting circumcised from birth for 5000 years, yet they are still born uncircumcised.

  I just disprooved Evolution.


 
 yeah suure.  
 genes were not removed/altered in the act of circumcision.  
 if you chop of a mans leg and then get him to impregnate a woman, the child will not have a gene missing for his leg. if you continue this it will continue to not make a difference.

 

 
surely they were being ironic?



still a good time for a lesson

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lmao
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Quote: from Natsy at 12:42 pm on June 26, 2009

lmao
I am not going to fuck someone of the other race just for the sake of it ...

WELL YOU SHOULD! ;D


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Quote: from Fortis Obscurum at 2:52 pm on June 25, 2009

Jews have been getting circumcised from birth for 5000 years, yet they are still born uncircumcised.

I just disprooved Evolution.


That's called Lamarckism. And Lamarckism is poppycock.

I said LEAVE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE!


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Kid Rune's gonna love this thread

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just because we look different doesn't mean speciation is occuring....

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Why not evolve into different species?

Can you give me one damn reason why it is GOOD to miscegenate and destroy the 100's of 1000's of years of evolution?


If we "Merge into one megarace" I would be quite ashamed of our species.
It's not good, and it holds no benefits.

It's destruction of diversity.

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Speciation does not need to take millions of millions of years.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html

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Quote: from Moridin at 1:59 pm on June 30, 2009

Speciation does not need to take millions of millions of years.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html


our gene pool is too large though.

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Where would you cut off subspecies and species?

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