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    14 KB Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)03:56 No.4065288  
    What is the next stage in human evolution?

    Personally I can only see our intelligence increasing as it is the only thing human actually use to survive. We can control our environments to such an extend that we can basically ignore climate and temperature. Our gene pool will become more polluted each year with poor quality disease causing genes as those who would die in nature don't and live to pass on their genes.

    But honestly I don't really see how we can evolve form this point unless we modify our genetic code via recombinant DNA technologies. A person in this day and age who is born with superior genetics in anyway has pretty much the same chance of reproducing, they aren't given an a greater chance of survival and then reproduction over any other humans.

    The sad thing is in a few thousand to a millions years (if we still exist then) we will more than likely be bald, pale, weak, short and more intelligent while being inherently riddled with genetic diseases if we don't modify the hell out of our genome. But if do modify our genome for certain traits where does evolution go from there? Are we at the end of natural evolution and entering the era of unnatural self determined evolution?
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)03:58 No.4065293
    tan and sin should be switched.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:01 No.4065301
    >>4065293
    I just chose a random picture, but I wouldn't know any better as I haven't done trigonometry in years.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:03 No.4065302
    >>4065293
    >he failed middle school
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:09 No.4065309
    >>4065302
    >learning trigonometry in middle school and not born with understanding
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:13 No.4065315
    >>4065288
    I like how no one yet has pointed out the clusterfuck of wrong that is that entire post, but focused on the trigonometry instead.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:18 No.4065324
    >>4065309
    >not born with understanding of number theory and point-set topology
    >not born with understanding of a TOE
    >not born with understanding of all of reality, physics, etc. as to make living pointless
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:18 No.4065326
    >>4065315
    I like how you pointed out a shit load that was wrong with it without actually pointing anything out.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:20 No.4065328
    >>4065326
    i like how you pointed out that a shit load was wrong with a meta-post digressing on other meta-posts instead of actually posting quality content
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:22 No.4065331
    Immunity to disease has just as much a chance to spread as susceptibility. The status quo will be maintained.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:23 No.4065333
    Evolution requires evolutionary pressure, you fucking retard. A species changes when members of a species without an advantageous trait die out.

    The last major evolution humanity underwent? The amazing ability to digest dairy products into adulthood. It offered a major survival advantage in Europe after the invention of cheese and domestication of cows and goats, meaning people that had that mutation were more likely to survive and raise successful children.

    TL:DR = to evolve, something would have to change to kill off poorly adapted humans.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:26 No.4065338
    >>4065315
    >Start thread on /sci/
    >Not expect thread to immediately decay
    >costanza.jpg
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:27 No.4065340
    >>4065333
    Genetic drift, Kin selection and sexual selection would like a word with you. They asked me to tell you that they are critical mechanisms of the development of a species as well. You can find them on wikipedia if you want to know what they have to say precisely.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:31 No.4065347
    >>4065340

    >List mechanisms that all STILL REQUIRE EVOLUTIONARY PRESSURE.

    Without pressure, those won't meaningfully differentiate a species on anything like a reasonable time frame.

    Humanity are currently in the same evolutionary point as sharks and cockroaches.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:32 No.4065349
    >>4065347
    Right, but less fit animals don't die off. Fitness is a measure of reproductive success, which is influenced by a whole lot of factors other than survival.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)04:34 No.4065352
    >>4065349
    >Right, but less fit animals don't die of
    don't *necessarily* die off

    my bad
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)05:00 No.4065382
    shouldnt overpopulation kick things of again?
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)06:02 No.4065427
    >>4065288
    Machines will harness our brains...
    or maybe evolution is still much more complicated, but the problem is we might devolve... rofl that would be a major fail..

    BTW. your picture is correct. cos b == cosby

    if it were tanb / sinb , then that would equal 1/cosb

    and 1 != 2cosb .... because there is only 1cosb
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)06:25 No.4065462
    SHITTING DICK NIPPLES
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)06:33 No.4065472
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    111 KB
    >>4065288
    We will all turn nigger - due to race traitors like this scum
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)06:34 No.4065476
    >>4065472
    This is news by the way - post this bitch on /b/ and let's a have a big party
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)06:57 No.4065509
    There's no natural evolution left for human as almost no inbreeding is happening anymore and this means mutations are very unlikely to be passed on. The future will be through genetic engineering and/or cybernetics.

    This article explains essentially the same thing but more thoroughly.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1070671/Evolution-stops-Future-Man-look-says-scientis
    t.html
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)07:00 No.4065510
    >>4065472
    Get back to stormfront.
    >> Anonymous 11/25/11(Fri)07:03 No.4065513
    >>4065472
    Get yourself checked.
    >> FUCK BITCHES GET MONEY !iILHznJ.V6 11/25/11(Fri)07:16 No.4065530
    >mfw i understand that picture.

    genius.



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