Sci/Tech Rapid acceleration in human evolution described

[The Helper]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday.

In fact, people today are genetically more different from people living 5,000 years ago than those humans were different from the Neanderthals who vanished 30,000 years ago, according to anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin.

The genetic changes have related to numerous different human characteristics, the researchers said.

Many of the recent genetic changes reflect differences in the human diet brought on by agriculture, as well as resistance to epidemic diseases that became mass killers following the growth of human civilizations, the researchers said.

Rapid acceleration in human evolution described

Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

 

[juty]

WOW scary dose that mean where all going to die off desires?

 

[Insane!]

are you pulling my chain?

 

[emjlr3]

B f'in S
and thats all i have to say about that

jk...semi makes sense, though i can't say I'd call making total destruction weapons evolution
evolution is directly proportional to the number of new members in a population, and we all know where are population is going...

 

[AceHart]

> Many of the recent genetic changes reflect differences in the human diet

Getting fatter by the second is neither genetic nor evolution...

 

[esb]

>Getting fatter by the second is neither genetic nor evolution...

In rare cases it is, when it's not caused by food.

 

[TheDamien]

>Getting fatter by the second is neither genetic nor evolution...

In rare cases it is, when it's not caused by food.

It is always caused by food.

 

[Miz]

Ehh, when push comes to shove you can always take care of mother natures force with atomic weapons XD
joking, hopefully, anyway the changes of human evolution won't be major we probably won't be able to tell, example: every 3 or 4 generations has some minor change or w/e...

 

[Jackal]

Somebody has been watching too much Heroes

It is always caused by food.

its not. There are some diseases that cause overweightness without food helping.

 

[Prometheus]

Yay, I'm more genetically advanced them my techers and parents!

 

[TheDamien]

its not. There are some diseases that cause overweightness without food helping.

Someone ought to dispel this groundless myth once and for all. Food is the source of all body fat. Period. The rate at which people gain and lose body weight is highly variable, but it still has to come from somewhere.

 

[Aqua Dragon]

Someone ought to dispel this groundless myth once and for all. Food is the source of all body fat. Period. The rate at which people gain and lose body weight is highly variable, but it still has to come from somewhere.

Exactly, Your food gets the calories and cholesterol and everything else from the enrrgy it consumes. Food is the energy we use, and as such that is the sourceo where all fat comes from. Each person may gain it at a different rate, but overall it still is all about what you eat.

That aside, I wonder what traits are being brought along to the future and which are being abandoned

 

[Insane!]

That aside, I wonder what traits are being brought along to the future and which are being abandoned

so far we havent lost all the hair from our ancestors
arm
leg
other*
facial hair
ect

 

[esb]

Nope, there is Metabolic Syndrome.

It is mainly genetic, but is also caused by the food one eats. What this syndrome does is exagerate it a bit and thus causing a big problem. Little excercise and overeating contributes to it.

Take me for example, I can eat anything I want, and I don't get fat. I don't excercise like "omg" but I do the normal.

 

[Idontknowyou]

howcome I already knew this before I read it? = \

 

[emjlr3]

Nope, there is Metabolic Syndrome.

It is mainly genetic, but is also caused by the food one eats. What this syndrome does is exagerate it a bit and thus causing a big problem. Little excercise and overeating contributes to it.

Take me for example, I can eat anything I want, and I don't get fat. I don't excercise like "omg" but I do the normal.

give it a few years

I was like that in HS, though now I attribute it more to playing sports 3 hours a day then I did at the time, but once you get in the real world, and spend the majority of your day sitting, it catches up to you