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Happy Darwin Day!
KickThatBathProf:
Fuckin' Kansas
KharBevNor:
Yay science.
Peet:
Unfortunately, Tom, due to the advent of domestication the likelihood of the cat evolving is getting slimmer. Opposable thumbs, you see, would confer little selective advantage for a house cat that doesn't need to provide food or shelter for itself. I would wager that most cats now die of old age, as a result of the pampering. I would wager that the future evolution of cats would be along the attracting a mate line...pretty patterns or smellier scents.
I am neither a phylogenist or a catologist though.
Jimmy the Squid:
I am going to celebrate by being a slightly more awesome version of my forebears.
Doug S. Machina:
--- Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 13 Feb 2008, 06:19 ---I am going to celebrate by being a slightly more awesome version of my forebears.
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I like that.
I'm no scientist either, but have heard that civilisation means humans aren't evolving at any more. Unsuccesful traits that would have been weeded out by unforgiving Nature before reproducing can now be supported. Even if, say, your immune system is busted, medical science can help you live a life. I would think the same would apply to our pets, unless we think it would be good to breed them for thumbs.
--- Quote from: ephemere on 12 Feb 2008, 19:45 ---happy darwin day, charles darwin. you wrote 'the origin of species' almost 150 years ago and did years and years of research and pretty much proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that evolution exists yet american public schools still insist it is just a theory.
it's unfortunate you're no longer alive, but i guess you probably wouldn't want to be anyway. maybe it's for the better.
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It's pretty disingenuous, that. A theory in science is different from saying "Well, that's my theory." That's a hypothesis.
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