Comments | gingi0: An Evolutionary Problem

gingi0

An Evolutionary Problem

Jan 23, 2006 06:06

Recently I picked up a copy of Charles Darwin's masterpiece, "The Origin of Species." After all, it is hailed as one of the greatest turning points in science, if not biology. It essentially lays the basis for a lot of my own personal work in genomics. Right now, I'm about halfway through the book. Interesting read so far ( Read more... )

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jana_lozado January 23 2006, 14:20:14 UTC

I saw a Discovery Channel program that showed chimps using rudimentary tools - sticks to dig out bugs and rocks to break fruits. Maybe early forms of forks and hammers?

rlozado January 24 2006, 04:20:33 UTC

Why?, you ask is there no other "mid" species? Did you not see the Fox reality show Help! I'm an Ultimate Fighting Opposable Thumb Developed Language Homo sapien, Get Me Out of Here? We won. Metallica said to kill them all and don't steal our music. We got it half right.

rlozado January 25 2006, 21:50:21 UTC

"If Darwin's conjecture is correct, then there should be other human "varieties" roaming the planet."

I agree with rlozado. I sort of suspect that our variety evolved violent In Group/Out Group behaviors and killed off all the other varieties. Now that they are gone, we're hard at work killing off minor subgroups within our own species.

Genetics Conference? anonymous January 25 2006, 21:44:50 UTC

"While away on a genetics conference last week"

I can't believe you're wasting taxpayer money going to genetics conferences. Where I work, we'd never waste taxpayer money that way. You're a programmer, for God's sake! Don't you have a dungeon you're supposed to be hidden away in?

James
Genomics Software Worker Bee in Sector G9
Houston, TX.