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Originally Posted by Chris T
I see vast adaptability within type. God's genetic programming system is a masterpiece, lots of contingencies built in and ready to come to the fore when environmental changes favour, say, someone with a built in sun-tan (African) over someone who's as pale as the driven snow (some of my Pictish neighbours up here in Scotland).
What I do not observe is 'beneficial mutation', whether in humans or anywhere else.
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To be fair the science of Evolution has only been around for a couple of generations. Your unlikely to see any changes in that time or for many many generations its a very slow process. Also if you look at the way humans work we are unlikely to evolve much since its requires the death of weaker variations which is not something that we allow, medically, to happen.
Humans kind of screw up nature.
But you look at how viruses adapt to become resistant to medication. Its because the viruses change so much they allow variations at a much much much faster rate than animals. Then a variation will change enough that its not possible to treat it, which allows its spread and then it becomes the 'new' version of the virus.
For Humans, it would have been our brains and yoour hands that would have allowed us to continue since we are the fastest or the strongest animals but we can use tools, weapons and planning to hunt giving us a advantage.