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What is the meaning of the word better/best? Can I say that Whitney Houston is musically a better artist than Beyonce, but that I prefer to listen to Beyonce's music? If so, how can Whitney Houston be musically better? If I think she's better wouldn't that mean that I should prefer her music because it's better? I enjoy Beyonce's music more, so technically does that mean that I actually think it's better than Whitney's? :patrice: And this can expand to anything. Any kind of comparison. Can you like something more than something else, but think the thing that you like less is technically better than the thing you like more? Would it still have the definition of better or best in this case (the thing you prefer less)?


A thought I had while partaking in the blessed green plant. :mjlit: Is this just nonsense :dead:, or worth thinking about?

Edit: You clicked on a thread called "High Thoughts". You knew you were about to stumble in on some potential silly shyt. Take it easy.
 
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:dead: I'm trying to get to the meaning of life. Pardon my nonsensical stumbles on my journey. :russ:
:yeshrug: We are intelligent apes, its as simple as that. We got very lucky as a species. We could have been a bacteria colony inside of a toilet bowl:wow:

Being human is an automatic w if you have all your faculties and/or incredible talents, especially in this day and age. We developed rather well for some wrangly ass apes:mjpls:
 

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:yeshrug: We are intelligent apes, its as simple as that. We got very lucky as a species. We could have been a bacteria colony inside of a toilet bowl:wow:

Being human is an automatic w if you have all your faculties and/or incredible talents, especially in this day and age. We developed rather well for some wrangly ass apes:mjpls:
I was just thinking about this. We could be ants. :ohhh: I mean technically in the grand scheme of things concerning the solar system we are ants. This is all just happenstance. Does anything we do here really mean anything?
 

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Explain this..
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Africans luckily escaped that Neanderthal DNA train though. The ricelings and pink toes did not. That's honestly my theory behind why they're so savagely and deviant. :scust:
 

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Explain this..

Introduction to Human Evolution

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Introduction to Human Evolution
Human evolution
Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.

One of the earliest defining human traits, bipedalism -- the ability to walk on two legs -- evolved over 4 million years ago. Other important human characteristics -- such as a large and complex brain, the ability to make and use tools, and the capacity for language -- developed more recently. Many advanced traits -- including complex symbolic expression, art, and elaborate cultural diversity -- emerged mainly during the past 100,000 years.

Humans are primates. Physical and genetic similarities show that the modern human species, Homo sapiens, has a very close relationship to another group of primate species, the apes. Humans and the great apes (large apes) of Africa -- chimpanzees (including bonobos, or so-called “pygmy chimpanzees”) and gorillas -- share a common ancestor that lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa.

Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans. Scientists do not all agree, however, about how these species are related or which ones simply died out. Many early human species -- certainly the majority of them – left no living descendants. Scientists also debate over how to identify and classify particular species of early humans, and about what factors influenced the evolution and extinction of each species.

Early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago. They entered Europe somewhat later, between 1.5 million and 1 million years. Species of modern humans populated many parts of the world much later. For instance, people first came to Australia probably within the past 60,000 years and to the Americas within the past 30,000 years or so. The beginnings of agriculture and the rise of the first civilizations occurred within the past 12,000 years.



Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropology is the scientific study of human evolution. Paleoanthropology is a subfield of anthropology, the study of human culture, society, and biology. The field involves an understanding of the similarities and differences between humans and other species in their genes, body form, physiology, and behavior. Paleoanthropologists search for the roots of human physical traits and behavior. They seek to discover how evolution has shaped the potentials, tendencies, and limitations of all people. For many people, paleoanthropology is an exciting scientific field because it investigates the origin, over millions of years, of the universal and defining traits of our species. However, some people find the concept of human evolution troubling because it can seem not to fit with religious and other traditional beliefs about how people, other living things, and the world came to be. Nevertheless, many people have come to reconcile their beliefs with the scientific evidence.

Early human fossils and archeological remains offer the most important clues about this ancient past. These remains include bones, tools and any other evidence (such as footprints, evidence of hearths, or butchery marks on animal bones) left by earlier people. Usually, the remains were buried and preserved naturally. They are then found either on the surface (exposed by rain, rivers, and wind erosion) or by digging in the ground. By studying fossilized bones, scientists learn about the physical appearance of earlier humans and how it changed. Bone size, shape, and markings left by muscles tell us how those predecessors moved around, held tools, and how the size of their brains changed over a long time. Archeological evidence refers to the things earlier people made and the places where scientists find them. By studying this type of evidence, archeologists can understand how early humans made and used tools and lived in their environments.



The process of evolution
The process of evolution involves a series of natural changes that cause species (populations of different organisms) to arise, adapt to the environment, and become extinct. All species or organisms have originated through the process of biological evolution. In animals that reproduce sexually, including humans, the term species refers to a group whose adult members regularly interbreed, resulting in fertile offspring -- that is, offspring themselves capable of reproducing. Scientists classify each species with a unique, two-part scientific name. In this system, modern humans are classified as Homo sapiens.

Evolution occurs when there is change in the genetic material -- the chemical molecule, DNA -- which is inherited from the parents, and especially in the proportions of different genes in a population. Genes represent the segments of DNA that provide the chemical code for producing proteins. Information contained in the DNA can change by a process known as mutation. The way particular genes are expressed – that is, how they influence the body or behavior of an organism -- can also change. Genes affect how the body and behavior of an organism develop during its life, and this is why genetically inherited characteristics can influence the likelihood of an organism’s survival and reproduction.

Evolution does not change any single individual. Instead, it changes the inherited means of growth and development that typify a population (a group of individuals of the same species living in a particular habitat). Parents pass adaptive genetic changes to their offspring, and ultimately these changes become common throughout a population. As a result, the offspring inherit those genetic characteristics that enhance their chances of survival and ability to give birth, which may work well until the environment changes. Over time, genetic change can alter a species' overall way of life, such as what it eats, how it grows, and where it can live. Human evolution took place as new genetic variations in early ancestor populations favored new abilities to adapt to environmental change and so altered the human way of life.

Dr. Rick Potts provides a video short introduction to some of the evidence for human evolution, in the form of fossils and artifacts.
 

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Africans luckily escaped that Neanderthal DNA train though. The ricelings and pink toes did not. That's honestly my theory behind why they're so savagely and deviant. :scust:
:yeshrug: Yea, early humans that migrated out to Europe were definitely fukking Neanderthals.
 

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this is the first time ive actually been able to hear michael mcdonald sing the words "back to you" on the chorus in peg

this shyt is crazy
 
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