Survival of not so fittest - Human interferance in Natural selection (Jan/30/2009 )
Nabi on Jan 30 2009, 09:00 PM said:
In one sense it is the power to destroy but looking at the present age, there are groups that have power to destroy our habitat but we refuse/fight to accept that they rule. Taking evolution into consideration, is it right to say that the one who is most evolved (or who is fittest to survive) is the ruler?
"Most evolved" makes little sense. How do you measure how "evolved" a species is in this context? You can claim humans "rule" the planet, but there are a lot more bacteria and insects than humans. If one looks at populations, this planet is ruled by bacteria and has been for billions of years.
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Consider also that there are more microbial cells in and on the human body than human cells.
-GeorgeWolff-
GeorgeWolff on Aug 21 2009, 08:07 PM said:
Consider also that there are more microbial cells in and on the human body than human cells.
Are there really?
-dlambert-
Yes. A physician once told me that an occasional patient will lose a small amount of weight after taking a broad-spectrum antibiotic. (A pound or two at most; I wonder how much of this is actually water-weight.)
-lab rat-
Of course it is pleasure to feel yourself as a King of the Earth, but that kingness ends in the close forest, when even simple things as you think they are when you are sitting in front of TV, suddenly grows to the huge problem!
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