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[leewong]

Originally Posted by RobotElvis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anthropomorphizing nature!
That's pseudo-science to the extreme.

No one is anthropomorphizing nature. You just dont understand the term "nature selects" implies or are being purposefully dense. When I refer to nature I am simply talking about the species surrounding (the enviroment) in which it lives. If food is scarce...that is a pressure that organisms will have to cope with. The ones that can will be able to pass on their genes. What is so hard to understand about that?

[RobotElvis]

Originally Posted by leewong [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No one is anthropomorphizing nature. You just dont understand the term "nature selects" implies or are being purposefully dense. When I refer to nature I am simply talking about the species surrounding (the enviroment) in which it lives. If food is scarce...that is a pressure that organisms will have to cope with. The ones that can will be able to pass on their genes. What is so hard to understand about that?

All those starving children in Africa will make a very fit species in a million years.

[leewong]

Originally Posted by RobotElvis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All those starving children in Africa will make a very fit species in a million years.

They may develop a new strand of bacteria in their gut to extract more nutrients for food or something similar so yes...they may end up being able to eat less than the humans you see there today.

There are a few factors which offset this though:

1. It isnt a static population locked to one environment. Humans move from one country to the next all the time. It isnt just starving African genes being passed to each new generation there. Some generations will lack food and some not so much. If we walled off Africa for a million years and starved them all it would be far more likely that they would develop traits to suit that environment.

2. Africans are very numerous. When you have a massive population, genetic drift takes longer to permeate through the entire species. Small populations change much faster than a large one.

I am sure there are quite a few factors that I am not accounting for but you get the idea.

[RobotElvis]

Originally Posted by leewong [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They may develop a new strand of bacteria in their gut to extract more nutrients for food or something similar so yes...they may end up being able to eat less than the humans you see there today.

There are a few factors which offset this though:

1. It isnt a static population locked to one environment. Humans move from one country to the next all the time. It isnt just starving African genes being passed to each new generation there. Some generations will lack food and some not so much. If we walled off Africa for a million years and starved them all it would be far more likely that they would develop traits to suit that environment.

2. Africans are very numerous. When you have a massive population, genetic drift takes longer to permeate through the entire species. Small populations change much faster than a large one.

I am sure there are quite a few factors that I am not accounting for but you get the idea.

That's racist

[RobotElvis]

Originally Posted by RobotElvis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's racist

Sorry troll post

[Glenzig]

Belief in something without evidence or proof.

So kind of like this.

Originally Posted by leewong [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They may develop a new strand of bacteria in their gut to extract more nutrients for food or something similar so yes...they may end up being able to eat less than the humans you see there.

[leewong]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Belief in something without evidence or proof.

So kind of like this.

That statement was merely an illustration of what could happen. Nice try though. I never claimed I believed it would happen. I claimed it was possible. Nothing more, nothing less.