retired_rmschaffer

There does not seem to be a case of one unique individual with an extreme trait, leaving a immense genetic legacy.

Even someone smart like Einstein. He is not so much smarter than everyone else. That all his relatives would be particularly super smart compared to the rest of humanity.

Evolution seems less important nowadays. Due to technology and social structures it is good we don't have to struggle as much to adapt to the environment.

It is probably applies more to things like bacteria where there can be several generations within a short space of time.

dejasade

they can keep their 'wisdom' and grins then. becuase i can run AND swim. i can do far more than them. being able to speak in echo doesn't bother me because i can learn any number of languages

i think the dolphines are grinning because their trying to convince themselves they made the right decision by going into the sea when any body with half abrain know that we humans rule over them

retired_gulkis

postal postie sounds genuinely slighted by this

retired_neasp

This is all true I seen it in an episode of The Simpsons

My_Evo

That's not how it works. You don't get some extreme trait, you get a gradual progression.
You wouldn't know about the change while it was going on, because it would be too slow.

The common ancestor of all birds didn't know that they were going to be responsible for one of the most prevalent groups on Earth today.


If you could travel forward in time 10,000 years, then you might see something.


I assume you mean "less important to us"? Because it's immensely important to all other life on Earth!
You're right that we don't have to adapt to the environment in the same way, but that simply applies a different type of selective pressure.
In fact, if anything negates the evolutionary process in humans, it's the social care system.

Evolution is no more or less significant today than at any time in the past.


No, it applies to all life on Earth equally. Rapid generations just mean we can observe the changes more easily. That doesn't make those changes more important.

retired_merri13

It is?