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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
So conscious actions are now the dominant force in human evolution, part of that being medical interventions
My Jamaican mate thought this amusing, I think since we have always used "neanderthal" as an insult
but since then they've postulated that Neanderthals were also intelligent:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/8898321/Neanderthals-were-too-smart-for-their-own-good.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
The theory of gravity is still a theory...
I aknowledge your right to not trust theories as fact and await your forum posts for help as you are thrown from the earths surface by colossal centripetal forces as our entire solar system dissolves into an uncoordinated mess and our gas giants dissolved into nothing...
Dont go there, few things make me genuinely angry but wilful ignorance is one.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/defy-stereotypes.html
and read the transcript of this show (or use VPN to watch it):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/decoding-neanderthals.html
I don't doubt at all that they died out partly by assimilation - that's typical modern human behaviour when one group wins a war against another as well.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Some of you need to go back to school.
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With education being drummed and expectation and social and communal order drummed into us at such an early age we do take collective memory, be it medicine, technology, tooling and books for granted. Hence why some people believe we are higher beings. We are no more intelligent than we were a thousand years ago, just that we have a massive head start and are well fed.
When the first English settlers arrived in what is now Virginia, the native Americans towered above them in height because they had far superior nutrition. Most of the colonising settlers died although the native Americans did help a load of them.
I think if you think that humans are vastly more capable I would say you are far too wrapped up in the moment and believing of modern culture.
You have to step aside, remember your history and think objectively about what we have really achieved and what it really amounts to. Nothing much has changed in the world in thousands of years, just that the mechanisms for delivery have been updated, are more efficient and more reliable.
But if you still want to believe we are higher beings with your insular blinkers on, then go ahead, you are free to do so, like those silicon valley scientists who theorize that the whole world is just a simulation.
Free your mind.
I can quite imagine the Dutch selectively breeding for height characteristics, after all the place is so bloody flat.
Modern technology and communications and culture has done far more to destroy the numbers and prolong the suffering of other humans than it has any other animals.
So next time you see a wild chimpanzee rip the arms off a baby chimpanzee and eat it or a bunch of ants, don't be so quick to assume we are leagues above them. We are just animals the same. Paedophilia, killing, torture, genocide, exploitation, cruelty. It's all still with us and an integral part of our primate evolution. Think about what motivates you and how willing your really are to share and how you justify the importance of your own existence over overs. Don't believe the cleanliness is godliness brigade. Hitler had it sussed and remember he served in WW1.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The biggest advantage came from the ability to record things for future generations so that they each had an advantage in knowledge. That has increased exponentially in the last 2000 years.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Besides, life has existed on earth for 3.5 billion years, and it is only within the last 3.5 million years that ancestors of man started to use stone tools. We are already seeing tool use in apes, so if humans didn't exist, a few million years from now apes could well be the ones making iPads and flying to Mars.