Genetics and evolution?
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Some Dude gave a great answer-I would add, just for interest, that the human race has exceedingly little genetic variation compared to other animals.  A recent study showed that an average-sized chimpanzee colony has more genetic variation that the entire human race.  This is presumably because at some point in the recent past (150-200,000 years) our common ancestors existed, and evidently our race must have been very close to going extinct, leaving a very small pool of humans with which to populate the Earth.
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Hi.\n\nThere's plenty of information over this topic in various search engines.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=human+evolution&go=Go\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2Bhuman+evolution\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2Bhuman+evolution+wiki\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:dmoz.org+%2Bhuman+evolution\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=human+evolution\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/search?q=human+evolution&qtype=all&num=100&sort=qeprice%3AA%3AR%3Ad1\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:answers.com+%2Bhuman+evolution\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2Bhuman+evolution+forum\nhttp://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=human+evolution
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wat are you talking about?  Evolution is something that every major scientist agrees with.  It does fit with up-to-date findings.  Hello, we just figured out the last DNA thing and that totally supports the idea of evolution.  Also, a theory must be disproved to be discarded, evolution has not been disproved.  Go back to school!
15786
genetics. human evolution and advancement of science has much to do with it. today, science can play around with our DNA to such an extent as to eliminate dreaded diseases such as cancer from our very genes.
264396
Great stuff going on right now having to do with developmental genes (like Hox genes).  You may know this as "Evo Devo" or evolutionary developmental biology.\n\nCheck out the book "Endless Forms Most Beautiful," by Sean Carroll.  He also gives ideas for research and new fields, lots of peer-reviewed papers.\n\nI just read it this Fall, it was great.
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The idea of evolution was not started by Darwin ... it actually goes back to the Greeks.  What Darwin's theory of natural selection did was provide the *mechanism* by which evolution occurred.\n\nIt consists of three basic observations:\n(1) Variation: All individuals within a species are NOT identical.  They vary in many different ways ... some are shorter, some taller.  Some are faster, some slower.  Some are hairier, some less hairy. etc.\n(2) Competition:  More offspring are born than can possibly survive to propagate.  If this were not true, then the world would be overwhelmed with overpopulation (of all species) within a few years.  This means that some will survive to pass on their genes, others will not.\n(3) Inheritance:  Every individual passes characteristics on to its offspring.  (Darwin did not know the mechanism for this inheritance ... what we now call "genetics", but it was clear that the offspring of a hairy individual, had a better chance of being hairy itself.)\n\nPutting these three things together, we realize that any characteristic, that is part of normal variation, that produces a slight advantage, will tend to get passed on through inheritance into offspring.  Therefore, advantageous characteristics will get passed on more within a species.\n\nOne important thing that a lot of people miss when you hear "survival of the fittest" ... it's not just survival ... it is SURVIVAL TO PROCREATE.  I.e. it doesn't matter if you survive if you don't have offspring.  E.g., a peacock's feathers don't help it survive, but it helps it to procreate (it attracts the ladies), and that is all that matters.\n\nAgain, the idea of *evolution* ... that organisms change over time ... is much bigger than the theory of natural selection.  Darwin's theory merely provides the missing piece of information of HOW that change occurs.
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Relationship to other primates had been suspected for years before Darwin   (1840's)-- simple observation.  Now with the deciphering of the geome for both chimps, and humans, relationship has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.  We are all so similar even back to fish ---a central body with 5 protrusions -- head and 4 limbs.  I don't know it all, lady, but taught science and math for years, read Discover Magazine, Scientific American, and watch the Science channel.   Fascinating.... Evolution is no longer a theory, but a fact, a lovely fact.  Our medical research on rats, dogs, and other critters would be worthless if evolution were not..   Helpful?  The question is toooo complicated to fully explain.  But you can start by reading scientific journals....   Good luck  Life is a life-long learning process.....  and god has nothing to do with it.  Critters survived, and evolved.  If a gene were detrimental, the critter carrying it didn't live long enough to procreate.  It the mutated gene was beneficial, it aided in that critter to live long enough to reproduce.  Lots of evolution is even occuring today.  Google things like Darwin's Finches, pigmy elephants, and of course dinasaurs.  \n\nOne quick interesting thing about moths in England to illustrate evolution:  In the early 1600's, before the Industrial Revolution began and coal producing smoke was a fact of life, a particular moth was mostly white, and blended into the tree bark on which it laid its eggs. The tree bark was white. Occasionally a grey-black one was hatched, but never lived very long -- birds got it.  As the Industrial Revolution took off in England, producing black soot, that black soot began to cover the trees' bark.  In less than 150 years, the white variety was gone, and there existed only the darker mutant.  Beginning in 1950 when England passed anti air pollution laws, those trees began loosing the soot off of the tree bark.  Yup, you guessed it..... the white variant is now dominant........ evolution in action  ,,,,,Helpful????
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Genetic Variation caused by mutation... if you really do believe in Adam and Eve.  Of course if you go strictly by the years available in the bible... there wouldn't have been enough time.
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Er... the theory of evoltion?  It's just a theory though.  Lots of loop holes.  :)
1121287
"Good question" I wander why they all don't evolve . If Darwin is correct, why did only a few evolve. Could be the Touch of God that cause certain Animals and people to evolve. Notice there are still a few Neanderthals out there. Very primitive, Think it has to do with Gods Anointing.
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Neither, because genetic material is inherited and not lost, probably just lying dormant, waiting to be 'switched on' when the conitions are right. After all, life has to be prepared to wait for environmental changes, or there is no evolution.
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The problem isn't evolution. The problem is the 'science' they use to 'prove' it.\n\nFirst, they started with an unsupported assumption (that the earth is millions / billions) of years old, then they used circular reasoning between varying fields of science to support that precept as fact, then they assumed without any evidence (in fact, in the face of their own evidence to the contrary) that one species can evolve into another.  Fact:  DNA strands of different lengths or different RNA locations cannot combine.  That means in order to produce say, a human, from say, gorillas, a male and a female gorilla would have to have identically mutated genes at exactly the same time at exactly the same place, find each other and successfully mate.  The probability of that happening one time (ape to man) exceeds the most liberal mathematical calculations of probability.  To happen thousands or hundreds of thousands of times to evolve from a single cell organism to any mammal way exceeds ANY mathematical concept of possibility.  What science has done is said "This is what we are going to prove, don't confuse us with the facts."
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I think some of the answers confirm your argument. There seems to be ignorance of the difference between the theory of evolution and the fact of evolution. That evolutionary change in species occurs is definitely not in question-there is no doubt whatsoever based on the extensive fossil record and physiological similarities between species-so those who make a blanket statement about evolution not being a fact are talking rubbish. Only the theory-the mechanisms involved are subject to any conjecture although there is no competing theory to challenge natural selection so that is accepted as fact by 99% of biologists. Creationism has nothing to contribute to science. It can be dismissed out of hand as irrelevant.
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Genetics of the fruit fly drosophila (Mendeline genetics)\n\nAn essay on Darwin and his discovery of Natural selection would be good and interesting reading.\n\nHow do finger prints work? Including the history of, and perhaps a discussion on the fact that identical twins do not have identical finger prints.\n\nOver farming/fishing, how humans are quickly using up the environment and resources of the planet.\n\nThe extinction of the Dinosausrs.\n\nThe phenomenon of the Peppered Moth and Industrial melanism.\n\nDepends what area you are interested in, you can pick something you find fun and do some research on it, don't think of it as hard, think of it as an opportunity to do something you enjoy and show your markers how much you enjoy it by researching it.
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Feasible (sp?), perhaps. Evolution to adapt to the environment will certainly take place. Obviously no one can say for sure that will happen, especially since we don't know what would genetically change.\n\nBut even so, that'll be a couple thousand years from now. Personally, I'm not concerned.
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Fine. I'll level with you.\n\nI believe evolution is possible. I think that certain organisms have developed over time to better their "fitness" (if you will). However, I am a Creationist and believe that God created the Earth and the creatures on it. Sorry if I find it hard to believe that a blob evolved into the life on the planet today.
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read here\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation