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    Are human actions part of evolution?

    In this video Richard Dawkins talks about a hypothetical situation and attributes behavior of birds to genetic changes. He goes on to say both fishing and piracy are unstable by themselves and an evolutionarily stable strategy is one when none can do better than the other. Isn't it the same case...
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    Are human actions part of evolution?

    Yes, I agree with all the above. But my question is are these activities of humans part of evolution? She was arguing they are not. Disregarding those environmental forces which are not under human control, the cultural forces are again from the variety of traits of human genes fighting for...
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    Are human actions part of evolution?

    Can you tell me how it can be justified if not entirely unjustified?
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    Are human actions part of evolution?

    How is that an excuse? These traits might be more severe in those who do the destruction and you may not be inclined to do such things because your genes may not carry these traits. The population which is able to outlive and reproduce is going to spread those specific characteristics to its...
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    Are human actions part of evolution?

    Me and my friend were talking about human activities. She said that humans are creating pollution, killing so many animals creating an imbalance in food chain, global warming etc. In short we are making it worse for ourselves and other species. My reply was whatever humans do is a part of...
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    Does evolution stop?

    I have a rudimentary understanding of evolution. Simply put it starts with chance and guided by natural selection which is not random. This is my understanding as of now not sure if its correct. In this video http://bigthink.com/videos/mankind-has-stopped-evolving-2 he says humans have stopped...
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    What humans were doing for 200k years?

    thx all for your replies! haha...very funny:rofl: by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_inventions i see the number of inventions are exponential for every 3k years...does it mean people are becoming exponentialy intelligent?ofcourse that's just a speculation!
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    What humans were doing for 200k years?

    if the first known human fossil is 200k years old why the earliest known human civilisation is just few thousand years old? Why there was no reasonable developments for a very large time like 190k years?
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