Human evolution speeding up?
The pace of change accelerated about 40,000 years ago and then picked up even more with the advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago, the study says.Hmmm...
...The biggest changes have come since the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, which opened up new environments for the quickly expanding human population to grow from millions to billions.
More people mean more mutations, Harpending noted.
"You are also giving them the potential to be adaptive mutations," said Brian Verrelli, who studies population genetics and evolution at Arizona State University in Tempe and was not involved in the research.
Evolution has speed up since 10,00 years ago - for me this means since the last global cataclysm.
"More people means more mutations". How about, more cosmic rays meant more mutations!
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posted by Rob at
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
2 Comments:
i read recently about a book that was written in the early '70's about the I-Ching. Two brothers researched the I-Ching and discovered that it was really a calendar based on cycles of change. these cycles are predictable and the I-Ching predicts the end on 12/22/12. This end is described as something like when mind, soul and matter become one. I know this is not exactly what i read but it's close. the point is that the authors at the time of their finding knew nothing about the mayan calendar prediction. what kind of a coincidence is this? I think the odds are astronomical that the date would be bogus, mean nothing, and yet be picked by two groups of researchers, years apart, and at least for one group, unaware of the others findings. I believe the mayan spiritual leaders are confirming the significance of 12/22/12 so it would seem either the date is a beginning , ending of a cycle of sorts or a coincidence of awesome measure has occurred.
The work was done by the McKenna brothers, "Time Wave Zero". The end date is 12/21/2012
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