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Last night I was pondering Evolution and if we as a species have stopped evolving, this was while I couldn't find a damn nail clipper to cut my nails with.
I presume our nails grow from when we evolved from Monkeys and came down from the trees, nails are obviously useful for climbing trees and ripping open food but how many thousands of years have we had eating implements and not needed nails?. They haven't stopped growing, likewise with women and hairy bits they all (or they should all) shave their legs and other bits so why haven't they evolved to not grow hair on these bits?.
I have lots of other unanswered questions that im sure PH's has the answers to.
I presume our nails grow from when we evolved from Monkeys and came down from the trees, nails are obviously useful for climbing trees and ripping open food but how many thousands of years have we had eating implements and not needed nails?. They haven't stopped growing, likewise with women and hairy bits they all (or they should all) shave their legs and other bits so why haven't they evolved to not grow hair on these bits?.
I have lots of other unanswered questions that im sure PH's has the answers to.
BoRED S2upid said:
I presume our nails grow from when we evolved from Monkeys and came down from the trees, nails are obviously useful for climbing trees and ripping open food but how many thousands of years have we had eating implements and not needed nails?. They haven't stopped growing, likewise with women and hairy bits they all (or they should all) shave their legs and other bits so why haven't they evolved to not grow hair on these bits?.
There needs to be a benefit to a change before it will end up being selected for. And "benefit" in that sense means "more likely to pass on the genes". How is someone who doesn't have to cut their ails more likely to breed than others who do have to cut their nails. Only if nail-cutting was so abhorrent to us that a nail-cutter would never breed would the need to nail-cut have a chance of being evolved out.Genetic diseases may become more prevalent as we become better at surviving them thanks to medical science, so we can pass on those genes.
Read some of Richard Dawkins work (The Blind Watchmaker for example).
Chilli said:
Thing is, if we evolved from Monkeys/Apes....how come we still have them?
Also, why did ****(insert who/whatever decided that evolution should exist) decided that as I got older, my nostrils and my ears would require extra insulation, yet the top of my head wouldn't?
ALL mammals have nails or claws - including humans. We haven't lost them because we are still far too close in time to our arboreal ancestors. Give another 10 million years or so (a blink in geological time) and they may disappearAlso, why did ****(insert who/whatever decided that evolution should exist) decided that as I got older, my nostrils and my ears would require extra insulation, yet the top of my head wouldn't?
And by the way, we didn't evolve from apes - we ARE apes - still.
ewenm said:
BoRED S2upid said:
I presume our nails grow from when we evolved from Monkeys and came down from the trees, nails are obviously useful for climbing trees and ripping open food but how many thousands of years have we had eating implements and not needed nails?. They haven't stopped growing, likewise with women and hairy bits they all (or they should all) shave their legs and other bits so why haven't they evolved to not grow hair on these bits?.
There needs to be a benefit to a change before it will end up being selected for. And "benefit" in that sense means "more likely to pass on the genes". How is someone who doesn't have to cut their ails more likely to breed than others who do have to cut their nails. Only if nail-cutting was so abhorrent to us that a nail-cutter would never breed would the need to nail-cut have a chance of being evolved out.Genetic diseases may become more prevalent as we become better at surviving them thanks to medical science, so we can pass on those genes.
Read some of Richard Dawkins work (The Blind Watchmaker for example).
And no I didn't find the damn clippers had to bite them like a caveman!.
BoRED S2upid said:
ewenm said:
BoRED S2upid said:
I presume our nails grow from when we evolved from Monkeys and came down from the trees, nails are obviously useful for climbing trees and ripping open food but how many thousands of years have we had eating implements and not needed nails?. They haven't stopped growing, likewise with women and hairy bits they all (or they should all) shave their legs and other bits so why haven't they evolved to not grow hair on these bits?.
There needs to be a benefit to a change before it will end up being selected for. And "benefit" in that sense means "more likely to pass on the genes". How is someone who doesn't have to cut their ails more likely to breed than others who do have to cut their nails. Only if nail-cutting was so abhorrent to us that a nail-cutter would never breed would the need to nail-cut have a chance of being evolved out.Genetic diseases may become more prevalent as we become better at surviving them thanks to medical science, so we can pass on those genes.
Read some of Richard Dawkins work (The Blind Watchmaker for example).
ewenm said:
BoRED S2upid said:
ewenm said:
BoRED S2upid said:
I presume our nails grow from when we evolved from Monkeys and came down from the trees, nails are obviously useful for climbing trees and ripping open food but how many thousands of years have we had eating implements and not needed nails?. They haven't stopped growing, likewise with women and hairy bits they all (or they should all) shave their legs and other bits so why haven't they evolved to not grow hair on these bits?.
There needs to be a benefit to a change before it will end up being selected for. And "benefit" in that sense means "more likely to pass on the genes". How is someone who doesn't have to cut their ails more likely to breed than others who do have to cut their nails. Only if nail-cutting was so abhorrent to us that a nail-cutter would never breed would the need to nail-cut have a chance of being evolved out.Genetic diseases may become more prevalent as we become better at surviving them thanks to medical science, so we can pass on those genes.
Read some of Richard Dawkins work (The Blind Watchmaker for example).
We haven't stopped evolving.
These pages are helpful, and if you like to read aboot religiousists trying to get into science, the wiki pages offer some of the best stuff...apart from utube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_evolu...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_a...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Evolution/FAQ
These pages are helpful, and if you like to read aboot religiousists trying to get into science, the wiki pages offer some of the best stuff...apart from utube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_evolu...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_a...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Evolution/FAQ
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