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**Slonopotam845** · 04-30-2012, 09:38 PM

bro,

this video on evolution does little to improve the understanding of evolution, more often than not, it confuses.

if me could further elaborate: the diversity of living organisms need not come from one single type of organism as this video had presented. more likely than not, the diversity is achieved when various mutated groups branched off from a group of similar organisms. the critical mass in population had to be achieved before we see the selection forces start operating on that species of organism.

the cheetah would be a good candidate to look at as its population is dwindling so small, it is unlikely to see much mutation in its genome on the whole, save for the recessive genes showing up due to excessive in-breeding. we, the humans, on the other hand would be another good candidate to look at as we seem to have reached critical mass. we're looking at more occurrences from various types of mutation, cyclopia, cleft lips, spinal bifida, so on and so forth.

embryology is another good branch of biology to understand more about evolution, look at the embryo of a chick, human, fish, and or any vertebrate and you'll see that a lot of organisms do share a lot of common traits

yes the video is too brief to describe evolution in detail but the animation is pretty cool. i saw one documentary where the scientists were explaining how dinosaurs evolve slowly into modern days birds. Others are on the reversal of mammals going back to the sea like the dolphins and whales.

yes, mutation and mixing are the fundamentals for both the micro and macro evolution. did my final papers proofing on genetic algorithm and wrote some shitty programs trying to express solutions to a problem and tried to match stronger genes expressed in an environment and exchange dna, then add in mutation to see their offsprings whether strong or weak.

it would be better if it can start from abiogenesis onward, from inorganic compounds to organic early cell. there is a video somewhere where carl sagan narrated the evolution process. It is a discipline of study by itself and cannot be explained in a mere statement.

human, at the current stage, is only but a single specie, all our "cousins", Neanderthals have been exterminated. And there was a world's dna test done by a group of scientists who went to all over the world to take DNA samples and from what they discovered, basically our human genomes originated from a corner in congo africa where humans start to migrate 100,000 - 200,000 years ago. impressive..

04-30-2012, 09:38 PM	#30
Slonopotam845 Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 5,251 Senior Member	bro, this video on evolution does little to improve the understanding of evolution, more often than not, it confuses. if me could further elaborate: the diversity of living organisms need not come from one single type of organism as this video had presented. more likely than not, the diversity is achieved when various mutated groups branched off from a group of similar organisms. the critical mass in population had to be achieved before we see the selection forces start operating on that species of organism. the cheetah would be a good candidate to look at as its population is dwindling so small, it is unlikely to see much mutation in its genome on the whole, save for the recessive genes showing up due to excessive in-breeding. we, the humans, on the other hand would be another good candidate to look at as we seem to have reached critical mass. we're looking at more occurrences from various types of mutation, cyclopia, cleft lips, spinal bifida, so on and so forth. embryology is another good branch of biology to understand more about evolution, look at the embryo of a chick, human, fish, and or any vertebrate and you'll see that a lot of organisms do share a lot of common traits yes the video is too brief to describe evolution in detail but the animation is pretty cool. i saw one documentary where the scientists were explaining how dinosaurs evolve slowly into modern days birds. Others are on the reversal of mammals going back to the sea like the dolphins and whales. yes, mutation and mixing are the fundamentals for both the micro and macro evolution. did my final papers proofing on genetic algorithm and wrote some shitty programs trying to express solutions to a problem and tried to match stronger genes expressed in an environment and exchange dna, then add in mutation to see their offsprings whether strong or weak. it would be better if it can start from abiogenesis onward, from inorganic compounds to organic early cell. there is a video somewhere where carl sagan narrated the evolution process. It is a discipline of study by itself and cannot be explained in a mere statement. human, at the current stage, is only but a single specie, all our "cousins", Neanderthals have been exterminated. And there was a world's dna test done by a group of scientists who went to all over the world to take DNA samples and from what they discovered, basically our human genomes originated from a corner in congo africa where humans start to migrate 100,000 - 200,000 years ago. impressive..
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