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I believe that "instinct" in all living organisms is a trial and error, generation by generation result as stated in Darwin's Natural Selection theory. Obviously it must be.
Let's look at an example form of life: A Chimpanzee for instance.
As many of you are already aware of, the chimpanzee has the ability to use rudimentary tools, much in the same way as humans do. from sticks, clubs, rocks,............hell I even saw a very old Chimp from many years ago, who had been raised by someone who worked in a Bar (tavern/pub). The old chimp had learned to tend the bar and serve drinks!
The old chimp may or may not have been a natural genious among the whole chimp species. However if a long term laboratory experiment were to be carried out in which scientists were to test many thousands of chimps for high intellectual capabilities and breed the most intelligent chimps together while killing off those chimps that were simply to stupid to meet the minimum intellectual requirements, then the obvious resultant offspring of the experiment would absolutely produce a variety of Chimpanzee that would be far more intelligent than it's Jungle Cousins!
<i>In the previous mentioned experiment, genetic scientists would take on the role of "Mother Nature". </i>Those chimps that are <u>most fit</u> to survive the harsh conditions of their laboratory environment (be smart or be killed by the scientists), will inevitably be around the next day to choose mates, that are also very intelligent.
<b>IT IS NOT A TRAGEDY, IT IS JUST A SIMPLE FACT OF LIFE.</B> Whether it is <i>blood thirsty scientists, or gradually changing earth environmental conditions that kill off those living organisms (chimps in this example), the fact remains that those that survive another day and breed will have offspring that will carry it's successful parents' traits. This is how we humans came into existence. </i>
In my self confident opinion, I expect that our closest primate relative, the chimpanzee, developed other varieties of chimps long ago, that must have become separated from the main group that we know of today. I imagine that an off shoot variety of chimp long ago became nomadic and travelled over vast areas of the earth, while the main group of chimps from the "Old Country" stayed contently in the jungle.
This "off shoot" variety of nomadic chimp must have had good environmental conditions in which to flourish and thrive over vast, temperate zones of the earth during this time period. From this nomadic branch of APE, there were most probably more branches (varieties) of ape. However, I believe that the earth's regional environmental conditions changed and became more harsh, especially in the northern and southern regions of the earth's hemisphere. It is in these farther latitudes that I believe that our nomadic chimp ancestors had been living for some great amount of time.
These theoretical environmental changes may have been a rapid cool down of the earth that may have caused certain lucky varieties of the nomadic chimps to seek the ocean and become an aquatic Ape. Or perhaps environmental conditions became too good, at which point there may have been a large upsurge of land predators! This might also cause the nomadic apes to seek refuge in the oceans (or perhaps swamps (Swamp Ape)) and thereby lose their heavy coat of body and facial hair from lack of necessity (Use it or Lose it). Whatever the case, it has been reasonably established that our primate ancestors returned to the ocean (or swamps/marshes), if only for a while. As these environmental changes gradually (theoreticallY) took place, the chimps of the old country presumably changed little, if at all.
I am guessing that some short time later (hell......100 years, to as much as 10,000 years (or even a great deal more)), environmental conditions became temperate and conducive to life in the farther latitudes once again. In Evolutionary time, I think that the warm up, or the extinction of land predators came pretty damned quickly!
Maybe it was an asteroid. But how and when,........ and how many times? An asteroid may have first caused a large extinction which caused our nomadic chimp ancestors to evolve into a water ape, since some following decendants may have been more able (by gradual mutation each generation) to eat & breed & have offspring if they stayed near the oceans or swamps, while their nomadic parents were wiped out because they were surviving off the land only. If environmental conditions changed fairly quickly, the only likely Survivors of the nomadic ape branch would have been those who were reasonably well adapted to survive in the much more stable oceans, swamps, or perhaps near ocean shorelines. I believe that sometime in this period, the development of webbing in between the fingers and toes of our ancestors occured. An asteroid caused extinction and following winter might explain this and <u>might</u> also explain a quick return to temperate conditions that could cause the the aquatic apes' decendants to return quickly to the lands of the Earth. I say that the aquatic apes' decendants returned quickly to the land because if there hadn't been a quick return to the land, then the aquatic apes' decendants would have likely adapted so very much to the water that their decendants, and thus we humans would likely bear far less resemblence to our Congo cousins today! During all this time, CONGO THE GORILLO (gorilla's/chimps in africa) may have managed to survive by the large vegetation canopy and therefore changed little.
Environmental hardship has likely caused the modern man to come into being. Most recently, I believe that the Ice Age, or perhaps several ice ages have led to mankind developing great mental capacity over all of the other animals on this earth. It seems likely to me that fast changing environmental conditions in the northern and southern hemispheres may have left decendants of the aquatic ape to die off once again, save those that had began to think in abstracts. Perhaps these surviving decendants first began to cover themselves with animal hides..... Most of their close relatives of the time may not have had the ability to figure out that a bare ape will freeze to death while a smart ape will keep warm under the blankets with his woman and have offspring that will also have enough sense to use animal hides, tools, shelter.
As this smarter variety of ape continued to breed with other smart apes over several generations, those apes who couldn't figure out these rudimentary things simply died off, or were bred out of noticeble existance........perhaps gradually. I believe that possibly one tribe of these smart apes may have become exceptional beyond all other tribes. As a result, I believe that the physical braun of all the other tribes simply could not evolve quickly enough to compete with the decendants of the smart apes.
<I>Much more temperate and survivable conditions may have come and gone many times after this. It would be of great benefit to any student of evolution to also have knowledge of geology, paleontogy, archeology, ect.. I say this because I am a firm believer that the changing environmental conditions of the Earth, from the very beginning, has precisely caused, and is precisely responsible for ALL of the various forms of life today! Even more than that, I believe that the effect, not only of our sun, but of all the other solar sytems, galaxies, ect.... must be formulated into the theory of the evolution of life on this planet! To me, all of the fields of science are to be understood as one science and to be a specialist in one particular field will inhibit one's ability to develop a reasonable grasp of the big picture in scientific understanding.</i>
<b>SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST</B>. Whatever environmental conditions led to the development of the highly advanced human brain, it ought to become clear to most of my fellow curious friends, that it is the evolution of the modern human brain that has made the survival of the human race possible. Therefore creative, abstract thought capabilities must have developed by the processes of succeeding genetic mutations that were passed down from each successfully surviving generation to the next surviving generation - and so on.
<b>Food for thought for the student of evolution.</b><I> Each person's brain is a constantly evolving device that allows our physical bodies to adapt to a variety of constantly changing environmental conditions. </i> This is an undeniable fact. Where a Tiger may continue to do well as long as the environment does not change too quickly for his decendants to physically adapt to, he (they) cannot adapt to a sudden, catastrophic change in his environment, while humans can adapt with thought, tools, ..... to find a way to survive. It is a fact that the very thought processes in the human brain do "evolve" as we think! I believe that the very same rules of evolution that have made us (survival of the fittest (or of the fittest thoughts in the subconcious)) are also the primary rules of our thought processes as we think! I say this because I know that evolution works better and more efficiently than any other type of problem solving approach/computer language than is known. The main problem with a tiger's evolution is that it works too slowly. However, the very same method of evolution works well for us because of the evolution of thought that takes place in our brains very quickly and allows us to adapt to changing environmental conditions in seconds as opposed to decades and centuries of evolution required for the tiger ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
What I am saying folks, is that as I may decide to learn how to become ......a Warp Drive Engineer, my brain may become capable of adapting within a relatively short period of time, whereas if the tiger had to quickly physically evolve over many generations to be able to travel among the stars, it would die out first.
<B>Can the manipulation of genes literally cause a newborn human being to have an IQ of 250+...????? Hell yes! No question about it! Just because people haven't been born speaking languge and doing math only means that past environmental conditions haven't required the natural selection process to produce a human race that is born smart! In fact that kind of goes against the grain of the development of the human brain!!!! The main strength of the mamalian human brain is it's flexibility and adaptability. Therefore I strongly believe that if genetic scientists ever succeed in programming knowledge into an unborn being, this knowledge will be placed in the very same areas of the genes as does exist the codes for INSTINCT ! ! !</b>
This evolution law is not limited to life only. It applies to all understanding. It is the process by which we interpret the universe. The scientist who cannot grasp this will always follow in the path of those who pioneer.
.............. SCREW THIS ! ! ! !.... I'M TIRED!!! TALK AT YA'LL LATER!!!!!!!!!
HS/HS...........
I believe that "instinct" in all living organisms is a trial and error, generation by generation result as stated in Darwin's Natural Selection theory. Obviously it must be.
Let's look at an example form of life: A Chimpanzee for instance.
As many of you are already aware of, the chimpanzee has the ability to use rudimentary tools, much in the same way as humans do. from sticks, clubs, rocks,............hell I even saw a very old Chimp from many years ago, who had been raised by someone who worked in a Bar (tavern/pub). The old chimp had learned to tend the bar and serve drinks!
The old chimp may or may not have been a natural genious among the whole chimp species. However if a long term laboratory experiment were to be carried out in which scientists were to test many thousands of chimps for high intellectual capabilities and breed the most intelligent chimps together while killing off those chimps that were simply to stupid to meet the minimum intellectual requirements, then the obvious resultant offspring of the experiment would absolutely produce a variety of Chimpanzee that would be far more intelligent than it's Jungle Cousins!
<i>In the previous mentioned experiment, genetic scientists would take on the role of "Mother Nature". </i>Those chimps that are <u>most fit</u> to survive the harsh conditions of their laboratory environment (be smart or be killed by the scientists), will inevitably be around the next day to choose mates, that are also very intelligent.
<b>IT IS NOT A TRAGEDY, IT IS JUST A SIMPLE FACT OF LIFE.</B> Whether it is <i>blood thirsty scientists, or gradually changing earth environmental conditions that kill off those living organisms (chimps in this example), the fact remains that those that survive another day and breed will have offspring that will carry it's successful parents' traits. This is how we humans came into existence. </i>
In my self confident opinion, I expect that our closest primate relative, the chimpanzee, developed other varieties of chimps long ago, that must have become separated from the main group that we know of today. I imagine that an off shoot variety of chimp long ago became nomadic and travelled over vast areas of the earth, while the main group of chimps from the "Old Country" stayed contently in the jungle.
This "off shoot" variety of nomadic chimp must have had good environmental conditions in which to flourish and thrive over vast, temperate zones of the earth during this time period. From this nomadic branch of APE, there were most probably more branches (varieties) of ape. However, I believe that the earth's regional environmental conditions changed and became more harsh, especially in the northern and southern regions of the earth's hemisphere. It is in these farther latitudes that I believe that our nomadic chimp ancestors had been living for some great amount of time.
These theoretical environmental changes may have been a rapid cool down of the earth that may have caused certain lucky varieties of the nomadic chimps to seek the ocean and become an aquatic Ape. Or perhaps environmental conditions became too good, at which point there may have been a large upsurge of land predators! This might also cause the nomadic apes to seek refuge in the oceans (or perhaps swamps (Swamp Ape)) and thereby lose their heavy coat of body and facial hair from lack of necessity (Use it or Lose it). Whatever the case, it has been reasonably established that our primate ancestors returned to the ocean (or swamps/marshes), if only for a while. As these environmental changes gradually (theoreticallY) took place, the chimps of the old country presumably changed little, if at all.
I am guessing that some short time later (hell......100 years, to as much as 10,000 years (or even a great deal more)), environmental conditions became temperate and conducive to life in the farther latitudes once again. In Evolutionary time, I think that the warm up, or the extinction of land predators came pretty damned quickly!
Maybe it was an asteroid. But how and when,........ and how many times? An asteroid may have first caused a large extinction which caused our nomadic chimp ancestors to evolve into a water ape, since some following decendants may have been more able (by gradual mutation each generation) to eat & breed & have offspring if they stayed near the oceans or swamps, while their nomadic parents were wiped out because they were surviving off the land only. If environmental conditions changed fairly quickly, the only likely Survivors of the nomadic ape branch would have been those who were reasonably well adapted to survive in the much more stable oceans, swamps, or perhaps near ocean shorelines. I believe that sometime in this period, the development of webbing in between the fingers and toes of our ancestors occured. An asteroid caused extinction and following winter might explain this and <u>might</u> also explain a quick return to temperate conditions that could cause the the aquatic apes' decendants to return quickly to the lands of the Earth. I say that the aquatic apes' decendants returned quickly to the land because if there hadn't been a quick return to the land, then the aquatic apes' decendants would have likely adapted so very much to the water that their decendants, and thus we humans would likely bear far less resemblence to our Congo cousins today! During all this time, CONGO THE GORILLO (gorilla's/chimps in africa) may have managed to survive by the large vegetation canopy and therefore changed little.
Environmental hardship has likely caused the modern man to come into being. Most recently, I believe that the Ice Age, or perhaps several ice ages have led to mankind developing great mental capacity over all of the other animals on this earth. It seems likely to me that fast changing environmental conditions in the northern and southern hemispheres may have left decendants of the aquatic ape to die off once again, save those that had began to think in abstracts. Perhaps these surviving decendants first began to cover themselves with animal hides..... Most of their close relatives of the time may not have had the ability to figure out that a bare ape will freeze to death while a smart ape will keep warm under the blankets with his woman and have offspring that will also have enough sense to use animal hides, tools, shelter.
As this smarter variety of ape continued to breed with other smart apes over several generations, those apes who couldn't figure out these rudimentary things simply died off, or were bred out of noticeble existance........perhaps gradually. I believe that possibly one tribe of these smart apes may have become exceptional beyond all other tribes. As a result, I believe that the physical braun of all the other tribes simply could not evolve quickly enough to compete with the decendants of the smart apes.
<I>Much more temperate and survivable conditions may have come and gone many times after this. It would be of great benefit to any student of evolution to also have knowledge of geology, paleontogy, archeology, ect.. I say this because I am a firm believer that the changing environmental conditions of the Earth, from the very beginning, has precisely caused, and is precisely responsible for ALL of the various forms of life today! Even more than that, I believe that the effect, not only of our sun, but of all the other solar sytems, galaxies, ect.... must be formulated into the theory of the evolution of life on this planet! To me, all of the fields of science are to be understood as one science and to be a specialist in one particular field will inhibit one's ability to develop a reasonable grasp of the big picture in scientific understanding.</i>
<b>SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST</B>. Whatever environmental conditions led to the development of the highly advanced human brain, it ought to become clear to most of my fellow curious friends, that it is the evolution of the modern human brain that has made the survival of the human race possible. Therefore creative, abstract thought capabilities must have developed by the processes of succeeding genetic mutations that were passed down from each successfully surviving generation to the next surviving generation - and so on.
<b>Food for thought for the student of evolution.</b><I> Each person's brain is a constantly evolving device that allows our physical bodies to adapt to a variety of constantly changing environmental conditions. </i> This is an undeniable fact. Where a Tiger may continue to do well as long as the environment does not change too quickly for his decendants to physically adapt to, he (they) cannot adapt to a sudden, catastrophic change in his environment, while humans can adapt with thought, tools, ..... to find a way to survive. It is a fact that the very thought processes in the human brain do "evolve" as we think! I believe that the very same rules of evolution that have made us (survival of the fittest (or of the fittest thoughts in the subconcious)) are also the primary rules of our thought processes as we think! I say this because I know that evolution works better and more efficiently than any other type of problem solving approach/computer language than is known. The main problem with a tiger's evolution is that it works too slowly. However, the very same method of evolution works well for us because of the evolution of thought that takes place in our brains very quickly and allows us to adapt to changing environmental conditions in seconds as opposed to decades and centuries of evolution required for the tiger ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
What I am saying folks, is that as I may decide to learn how to become ......a Warp Drive Engineer, my brain may become capable of adapting within a relatively short period of time, whereas if the tiger had to quickly physically evolve over many generations to be able to travel among the stars, it would die out first.
<B>Can the manipulation of genes literally cause a newborn human being to have an IQ of 250+...????? Hell yes! No question about it! Just because people haven't been born speaking languge and doing math only means that past environmental conditions haven't required the natural selection process to produce a human race that is born smart! In fact that kind of goes against the grain of the development of the human brain!!!! The main strength of the mamalian human brain is it's flexibility and adaptability. Therefore I strongly believe that if genetic scientists ever succeed in programming knowledge into an unborn being, this knowledge will be placed in the very same areas of the genes as does exist the codes for INSTINCT ! ! !</b>
This evolution law is not limited to life only. It applies to all understanding. It is the process by which we interpret the universe. The scientist who cannot grasp this will always follow in the path of those who pioneer.
.............. SCREW THIS ! ! ! !.... I'M TIRED!!! TALK AT YA'LL LATER!!!!!!!!!
HS/HS...........
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