Khuutra said:
CHYUII said:
WessleWoggle said: "Are we going to make the mistake of Hitler (not with the death) and start thinking that one race is less evolved than the next?"
Is that really a mistake? All races are more or less evolved in some areas. |
The funny thing is that there is only ONE RACE: The Human Race!
We use it the way that we do now because of our entrenchments and because of the beliefs of ignorant European Explorers of the past.
It is excepted and even a matter of PRIDE in most or all factions but we are all Human.
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Wess this post gave me a headache, and CHYUII, you aren't helping.
Nothing is "more" or "less" evolved than anything else, ebcause evolution is not a linear process! That's a stupidi dea that's been perpetuated by Saturday morning cartoons and the Mario Bros. movie - there's no such thing as "devolution" i.e. evolution in reverse, because evolution is not linear - evolution is the adaptation to a given environment. You can't be "less evolved" than somehting else, you just evolved differently. I'm not more evolved than my dog, it just means that my ancestors changedd in ways that allowed them to fill a very different but still specific niche - we just interpret that as "higher evolution" or higher complexity as a leftover line of thought from religious doctrine that taught we were of a higher state than other animals.
We aren't.
Different races can't be more or less evolved. That's stupid and it's racist.
But it's true that we didn't involve in the same way, tooo. Me and my fiance come from different evolutionary backgrounds because our ancestors had to fill separate evolutionary niches in order to adapt best to their environments. And if we have kids, well, they'll be different too.
Sorry if it seems like I'm ranting, it's just that people interpreting evolution as being a linear process really, really burns me up.
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First, at CHYUII, There's more races than the human race...
I'm not saying any one race is better or worse, because there's large genetic variation between individuals. I never said evolution was a linear process.
Different races can be more or less evolved in different areas. Darker people have skin that is better for sun protection. When white man invaded native peoples, some died because their immune systems weren't as evolved.
Khuutra, you seem to contradict youself.
"Different races can't be more or less evolved. That's stupid and it's racist."
"our ancestors had to fill separate evolutionary niches in order to adapt best to their environments."
Is being more evolved somehow different from being more adapted to your environment?
Also, why don't you believe in the concept of devolution? Over generations of inbreeding, or exposure to substances or radiation that can damage DNA, animals can become less adapted to thier environment. Or maybe that's called something different than devolution.