Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-02 Thread Alexander Hollins
pressure? -Original Message- From: Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 1:45 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure Why do you assume we don't face selective pressure? On Fri, Feb 1

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Alexander Hollins
Why do you assume we don't face selective pressure? On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:02 AM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: I have read many times about how we are evolving. How does this work in the absence of selective pressure? In reverse maybe?

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread fznidarsic
- From: Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 1:45 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure Why do you assume we don't face selective pressure? On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:02 AM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
fznidar...@aol.com wrote: I have read many times about how we are evolving. How does this work in the absence of selective pressure? In reverse maybe? There is always selective pressure. People are a domesticated species, and domesticated species tend to evolve rapidly, I think. Evolution

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: People are a domesticated species . . . I mean we have domesticated ourselves. To be precise, women domesticated men. Seriously. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Alain Sepeda
2013/2/1 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com I wrote: People are a domesticated species . . . I mean we have domesticated ourselves. anyway there is always selective pressure, like there is gaz pressure whatever is the container... human, by losing many natural pressure (resuistance to

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: human, by losing many natural pressure (resuistance to disease, survival to pregnancy), For most of history we have been under pressure from disease, especially in Eurasia, where population density was higher and mobility east and west of people and

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread ChemE Stewart
Frank, It is called Variety. Look around you and you will see multiple types of trees, birds, people, etc. I think we are constantly being biologically mutated all of the time by the flux of Dark Energy flowing thru us and low energy nuclear reactions it can create with regular matter.

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Harry Veeder
A facepaced introduction to epigenetics which is worth watching if you are unfamiliar with this new science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI Harry

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Harry Veeder
*facepaced -- fastpaced Harry On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: A facepaced introduction to epigenetics which is worth watching if you are unfamiliar with this new science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI Harry

Re: [Vo]:How does evolution work without selective pressure

2013-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: anyway there is always selective pressure, like there is gaz pressure whatever is the container... human, by losing many natural pressure (resuistance to disease, survival to pregnancy), are today selected on strange