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...<br><br>It may not amount to very much... I don't know.<br><br>Kelly<br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my Palm Pre</div><br></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Jul 29, 2011 6:43 AM, Dan <dan_ust@yahoo.com> wrote: <br><br><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">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 see<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>ms 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.</span></div>
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<div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class="hr" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 29, 2011 4:56 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] No Moon Bases Needed<br></font><br>On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:24:08PM -0400, Kevin G Haskell wrote:<br>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:31:50 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:<br>> <br>> >On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:50:50PM -0400, Kevin Haskell wrote:<br>> <br>> (Why would we need moon bases if we hope to evolve,
soon? Who would pay<br>> for)<br>> <br>> >Evolving is hard work, and takes a lot of resources. Might be not<br>> so soon as many think.<br>> <br>> Evolving is hard work, but it is happening faster and faster already, and<br><br>People are exactly the same as 50 kiloyears ago.</div>
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