[ExI] People are the same?/was Re: No Moon Bases Needed

[kellycoinguy at gmail.com]

I don't have access to my computer today... But I recall one of the TED speakers saying there had been 5000 genetic changes in the common human genome since agriculture...

It may not amount to very much... I don't know.

Kelly



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On Jul 29, 2011 6:43 AM, Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com> wrote: 

Whilst I don't see much evidence for rapid evolution happening amongst human in the last few centuries, it does seem to be the case that there was some amount of evolution from fifty thousand years ago. In particular, it seems that the ability to digest milk in adulthood arose and spread to most of the species. Also, blondness seems to have arisen in the last six thousand years ago. Granted, these are minor changes, but there are probably others that just haven't been uncovered as of yet.
 
Regards,
 
Dan


From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [ExI] No Moon Bases Needed

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:24:08PM -0400, Kevin G Haskell wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:31:50 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:50:50PM -0400, Kevin Haskell wrote:
> 
> (Why would we need moon bases if we hope to evolve,
 soon?  Who would pay
> for)
> 
> >Evolving is hard work, and takes a lot of resources. Might be not
> so soon as many think.
> 
> Evolving is hard work, but it is happening faster and faster already, and

People are exactly the same as 50 kiloyears ago.
 
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