Recent content by Danniel

My mistake... more than fractal it would be like "tiles", I think, it would remain isotropic, I guess. It wouldn't be the bodies that push each other away, but the "even" space that pushes the objects against each other. The more space, the harder and faster an object is pushed against its...

First of all, I don't really know much of physics so it may very well be something silly and laughable... but I just find somewhat interesting, and from the layman's point of view at least, not worse than some ideas that I see from people from the field, such as the hypothesis of darwinian...

I haven't seen the link, though I've seen this sort of "argument", like "Darwin was a pre-nazi bastard that hatred god, stole candy from smaller kids when he was in school, and he peed on his own pants up to when he was 12 years old". It is interesting to note, in this thing of racial issues...

For scott_alexsk I tryed to answer the PM, but the board said that you disable the option of accepting these, so I will answer it here anyway, since it's nothing really private Glad you appreciated it. Well, I'm not very aware of studies with mice, really. I find however a bit strange...

about the point 28 of the creationist site, the limitations of change. They do exist, but still is not the creationist "kind" limit way, like fixed boundaries of possible change. Think instead of small boundaries of possible change that move along with the populations as they change, but...

nope... and looking at the fossil record as an estimate of rates of evolution is very misleading. Even if a lineage appears to be pretty much the same along a great extent of time, there were more subtle oscilations, which could, but did not deviate much more mainly due to selection. But...

By the known organisms around the world not being fit with what is known of the possibilities of modification in descent. Rather than all the taxonomic groups we got, that are possible of being orgainzed in a phylogenetic "tree of life", we could be in a scenario where no one could possibly...

BTW, somewhat related news: Do not agree quite much because of similar reasons, seems that from higher mutation rates cancer is also a increased risk, and for explaining equatorial biological richness, I think that simple answer that the more light feeds more plants, creating a wider base of...

I´m not sure if the survivors of mass extinction episodes fit well as naturally selected; yet that is semantically arguable that it would be a sort of natural selection, in population genetics it would be more adequately considered bottleneck effect or founder effect, unless, whatever the factor...

... I do not deny that a considerable elevation in rates of cancer would cause mass extinctions... what I meant is that, since mass extinctions do not seem to appear together with the nullification of magnetosphere between magnetic reversals, apparently it is not causing a significative increase...

Would not it primarily affect rates of cancer incidence, rather than rates of evolution? Since lots of organisms have differentiation between somatic and germ cells, having more somatic than germ cells, and spending more lifetime doing other things than reproducing. However for those species...

I also wonder about the effects of different gravity in the embryonic development... I think they grew tadpoles (or a earlier stage, I don't recall) in zero gravity once, and they grew somehow turned in a wrong direction, but I don't remember of other effects, if they completed the development...

I think that in some cases the environment doesn't select the shape of the individuals, but rather the individuals "select" the environment they live according to the shape they already have. I think that could be the case with barrel-shaped persons living in high altitudes... but... this...