| written by Azuraun2 on Mar 30, 2007 11:33 |
 | |  | | OK, first let me explain what this is, and say some things first.
First of all, I'm no genius, so try not to flame if my thoughts sound completely off the wall/stupid, I don't know much about genetics, I'm just writing about why I've thought about so far. Although I would absolutely love your input, that's why I came here. Really this is hardly a theory, just a loose collection of thoughts.
Second of all, I actually hardly read any other theories on evolution, and there's a pretty high chance someone has already published thoughts like this, so if it seems familiar I'd like to know who else thought of this.
Third, if it sounds odd for some reason that's because I was making a comment on a web page and it turned into... This.
What this is my theory about the way evolution takes place what decides what an animal evolves into and what may happen to humans, through evolution, in the far off future, supposing we survive.
One more thing, sometimes my vocabulary REALLY makes some of the things I say sound... Less than intelligent, so excuse that 
Here's some things 'I though about in response to a web page, located here: http://www.physorg.com/news93597385.html
"Of course, I believe brains (or whatever stores the genetic stuff) take notes on their life and think of ways to adapt to
their situation/environment, and when a baby (or plant, or whatever) is "born" these changes are made - but they're small,
unnoticeable, hardly even there. And as the baby/plant/whatever progresses through life it does the same thing - it's brain
takes notes. Now supposing it doesn't travel miles upon miles away from where it's "parent" or "parents" lived or it's
environment doesn't change too much, it's brain should take notes similar to it's "parent's" and it's offspring will evolve
toward the same evolutionary goals it's parent(s) notes had. Sex complicates this concept, it's much simpler when we're
talking about an asexual creature, but maybe the reason (most, I'm sure) animals have two sexes, is to improve the way
genetic notes are passed on to their offspring, some way or somehow.
Considering humanity's current situation I imagine we might evolve with less and less muscle power as machines do more and
more of the work for us, become dramatically more intelligent, become less or more naturally resistant to diseases depending
on how well medications work, we may also become smaller and lighter as we lose the need for muscle as machines do all the
work for us, we may become more or less mobile due to machines carrying us around, we may live much, much longer.
We may be becoming dependant on technology not just in our day to day lives, but through evolution. We may evolve to take
advantage of technology more and more. In the far off future, we may become frail, weak creatures, but incredibly intelligent
ones too. We may someday have machines and computers do EVERY thing for us, we may reach a point where we no longer need to
evolve, we no longer need to discover anything, or invent anything useful or new, we can't. What happens then?..."
Once again, take into consideration the things I said at the top of this post. | |  | |  |
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  | written by Pomelos on Mar 30, 2007 11:37 |
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| written by Azuraun2 on Mar 30, 2007 11:44 |
| | | | Wow, you responded quick O_O
(XD @ your comment) | | | | |
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| | | | ![]()  | Pomelos said: | | <luke>Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!</luke> |
Yes, Pomelos, you're right...
If you post this, HE will respond...  | | | | |
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 | |  | | ![]() I'm no expert nor anything close, but I'm gonna open my big mouth.
I think there are two different timescales in the events you mention. Biological evolution works on the scale of millions of years. Cultural evolution (the survival of ideas and behaviors in our competitive social environment) works much faster, within a few decades, and the consequences of technology belong to the latter kind.
So we might become lazier, grow a floppier belly, or look less athletic, as a result of social changes. To actually encode our genes for a radically different body type, that belongs to the longer time scale, one so large that social predictions become meaningless (like, for instance, 'we'll be nuked out, or exterminated by our own machines, in 10 million years'). | |  | |  |
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 | |  | | ![]() Some research has been done on the field of genetic memory, and while I don't have links handy, I think I can remember some exiting results. I am definitely no expert on genetics either, but I think I recall reading about how things we experience throughout our lives (particularly events which may leave large psychological impacts such as disasters, famines, and so on) may have an impact on our DNA, basically turning on certain genes while turning off others. These tiny "switchers" can then be transferred to any offspring, who in time transfers it to theirs. Given enough time (many generations), these tiny changes could effectively become whole genetic rewritings, thus pushing evolution forwards based on the “memory” of the generations of the past. | |  | |  |
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| written by Nalix on Apr 07, 2007 15:14 |
 | |  | | ![]() I remember reading a book online about emergent behaviors that has definite bearing on this topic. <a href=http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/ch19-a.html> Here it is.
It basically explains how the theory of evolution is incomplete. What's there is right but there's a lot that's not accounted for. It may help shed light on how organisms evolve. | |  | |  |
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| written by Azuraun2 on Apr 25, 2007 04:14 |
| | | | I'm typing this on someone elses computer and dont have much time to post a detailed reply as my computer can't connect to the internet at the ment, so I'll post something more detailed later.
Anyways, it's really nice to see people's input on this concept, although I do prefer the simpler theory Darwin thought up of, there are some strange things in the way abimals and plants evolve that can't be explained by his theory, we probably won't completely understand evolution for a very long time.
It's VERY nice to know other people have thought of this
Unfortuanately I don't have the time to read the link Nalix gave me, but I'll have all the time in the world when I can get back on the internet. | | | | |
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