Anthropology

that if survival of the fittest is true, why are there soooo many stupid people???

I believe we have evolved, but...

2007-01-29 08:07:15 · 7 answers · asked by crct2004 6

think about it, we have barely been around as a species for a seconds when you consider how old life is on this planet.

Are we really superior to sharks whose species can be measured in the millions?

Or crocodillians of which I can say the same?

cockaroaches?

Are we really superior to these life forms when they have been more successfull at life long before us, and likely long after we become extinct?

Is the ability to reason and invent and use tools to the degree that we can really that important when it is a trait that can and likely will cause our own destruction?

2007-01-29 07:50:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yo

2007-01-29 06:29:56 · 11 answers · asked by No1 2

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to put it but does anyone know evidence for the big bang? I looked it up but i dont understand it. Can anyone put it in simpler terms. Im arguing with my friend.

2007-01-29 04:07:59 · 13 answers · asked by bluecolouredflames 3

i don't believe it is to do with diet. they are genetically different. if you brought a thai kid to the uk and fed him/her on a western diet, s/he would still grow up smaller than his peers because his/her frame / bone structure is smaller. why is this?

2007-01-29 00:34:40 · 7 answers · asked by ellen s 1

2007-01-28 23:18:08 · 13 answers · asked by sparklel21 2

2007-01-28 22:25:19 · 9 answers · asked by mugunth.kumar 2

I live in an area of southern Utah where indians had lived for about 4000 years. There is lots of evidence of stone tools like arrowhead,stone axes and metates. Also many viilage sites,campsite and flintknapping locations.

2007-01-28 13:18:36 · 5 answers · asked by Clayton 1

2007-01-28 12:42:09 · 3 answers · asked by Tunney 3

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2007-01-28 12:19:21 · 10 answers · asked by Tunney 3

2007-01-28 08:35:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Period.

2007-01-28 06:28:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The pre-Roman Empire tribes worshipped many mythical gods. After Julius Caesar set up the empire and designated himself as God the tribes worshipped caesar. But they called him by the varius names of their individual tribal god. This is common knowledge and is proven by searching google Roman denarius. These were the coins of ancient Rome. The one mentioned in the bible was the Augustus-Zeus coin.

2007-01-28 06:26:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-28 02:21:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do Evolutionists explain the perfectly manufactured, balanced and concentric ringed spheroids found in 3-billion year rock strata when apes, did not appear until 50 million years ago according the Evolution/Uniformitarian Model?

These sophisticated stones that are billions of years old and rotate on their axes, captured the attention of Mr. John Hund of Petersburg fifteen years ago. Hund's previous journey to the Gestoptesfontein mine near Ottosdal in the Northern Province is where he found a stone just like the one he read about and saw in the Klerksdorp museum.

While playing with the stone on a very flat surface at a restaurant one day, Hund realized it was very well balanced. He took it to the California Space Institute at the University of California to have tests done to determine just how well balanced it was. "It turned out that the balance is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology and these are the guys who make gyrocompasses for NASA. The riddle of the rotating stone spheres completely baffles even the NASA scientists.

”The stone is balanced to within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection,” explained Hund. Nobody knows what these stones are. One NASA scientist told Hund that they do not have the technology to create anything as finely balanced as this, yet they were created by someone approximately 2.8 billion years ago despite Modern Man did not appear until 100,000 years ago. Additionally, most shocking, he stated the only way that either nature or human technology could create something so finely balanced would be in zero gravity. Clearly, they are a product of a former global technoculture that once thrived upon the Earth, but was annihilated indicating that civilization is not linear as linear evolution teaches, but cyclic and recurrent meeting periodic cosmo-cataclysmic discontinuities as relayed by Plato, himself, and modern Free Thinkers like Cremo and Thompson, authors of “Forbidden Archaeology”.

Here is an extract of Mr. Hund's letter:

The existence of the sphere came to my attention ca 1977 while removing endangered rock engravings from the site where pyrophyllite or "wonderstone", as it is commonly known in the region, is mined on the farm Gestoptesfontein (meaning plugged fountain) near the little village of Ottosdal about 110 km from Klerksdorp in South Africa's Northwest Province.

I was intrigued by the form of the spheres, grooves around the middle and the fact that they are as hard as steel, while the material (pyrophyllite) in which they are found, is as soft as limestone with a count of only 3 on the Moh scale.
As you probably know, pyrophyllite (Al2 Si4 O10 (OH)2) is a secondary mineral and the deposits were formed by a process of sedimentation. On Gestoptesfontein volcanic activity was responsible for the forming of outcrops varying in height from about 10 to 100 meters. The smooth and relatively soft surface on the slopes was ideal for the prehistoric dwellers (San) to make their engravings of animal and abstract designs.

On Gestoptesfontein these outcrops were "swan" into huge pieces by means of twisted steel cables running zigzag on pulleys for several kilometers. These blocks were then sawn by the same method into more manageable pieces of about 500 x 500 mm. Occasionally the "sawing cable" got stuck on one of the metal spheres embedded in the pyrophyllite.

They vary in size from " 30 – 50 mm in diameter and have perfectly concentric grooves round the center as if they were molded. Inside the hard "shell" some have a spongy substance, while in others it resembles charcoal.

Inquiries were made from all over the world about this phenomenon. Countries include Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, England, USA, Norway, France and Botswana. Institutions such as the University of South Florida, Miles Price and Associates, the Society for Physic Advancement (S.A), Kokkolan Kaupunchi (Finland), Esotera (Germany) Geologisches Institut der Universiteit Pleicherwall (Germany), the Department of Philosophy UICC (Chicago), Danfoss (Denmark), Illustreret Videnskab (Coppenhagen), Louisiana Geological Survey, Gale Research Company (Michigan) and Search and Research Institute of Florida also made inquiries.

I wrote NASA HQ, to confirm or deny this in 2000, and never received a reply. Mr. Hund's letter was removed from the Klerksdorp Museum page, afterwards, when I checked back some time later, and the page re-designed.

Image: http://www.ufologie.net/htm/transvaalspheres.htm

2007-01-28 02:00:13 · 15 answers · asked by . 5

Evolutionist taunt scoffers for failure to see the proof. Where is the absolute proof? How did life form on this planet to evolve through the genetic chain to become homo-sapien?

2007-01-28 01:10:05 · 3 answers · asked by ? 4

Yes, sex is for the continuation of the species in ALL mammals.
Yet, for most (all ?) other mammals it is simply an act for that purpose - in some cases it even appears to be a painful process !
So why have humans evolved so that sex is an enjoyable function and - I'd better be careful here given others' religious beliefs etc ! - is often done solely for the pleasure it brings ??

2007-01-27 22:27:51 · 20 answers · asked by Snert 1

Im studying Anthropology and Im having trouble understanding the word "variation". I used the dictionary and I still have problem understanding.

Examples from the text:
Selection acts on variation.
Hidden variation is present in continouously varying traits.
Variation in reproductive sucess



Please example the word. No BS answers please.

2007-01-27 17:32:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 13:26:25 · 5 answers · asked by area52 6

2007-01-27 10:26:44 · 3 answers · asked by genaddt 7

Give me some facts. No sermons or classroom conversation.
I do not need links. Only logic. I will show you how logic is far superior to researching others missconceptions right or wrong.

2007-01-27 05:00:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just wondering, no fuel for cremation - frozen waste and no place to dig, but if they could wouldn't the cold preserve the corpse forever?

2007-01-27 04:39:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a black girlfriend with light blue eyes and people always ask what she is, especially black people (as in what other ethnicities she is composed of). She is very afro-centric (this means she is really into the African culture). Then she says she is all African and that there are Africans with blue eyes just like there are Aboriginies with blonde hair. Most people look at her like she is crazy. Well, that is true?

So are there a significant number of pure Africans with blue eyes. I'm not talking about African-Americans that can be mixed with God knows what. I am speaking of pure Africans. Genetically. And she is a black american btw.

2007-01-27 03:39:03 · 8 answers · asked by Nicole 1

They say they are both aryans, but how? Very different looking , dark hairk, dark eyes, compared to blue eyes, blond hair?

How?

2007-01-27 02:32:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-26 19:54:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is not a debate question. My anthropology professor didnt answer this question today, maybe he couldnt.........
If humans evolved from ape, then why are they not evolvig anymore? Did the evolution just stop? And since evolution cant produce a new species, then why are we not genetically similar to primates of today since we are so close to a frog?
Im not trying to disprove the theory, I cant get a knowledgable answer about it. Im a christian and I believe God made man...and so forth down that road. But scientist have had over 100 years to study evolution since Darwin theorised it..............where is the results of the studies? Im not talking fur color of the artic hare, Im talking about something actually evolving from what it was, not just a genetic change.
Im just confused because I fell evolutionist cant explain their own theory. And also...why is it still a THEORY, why not fact............?

2007-01-26 10:20:38 · 21 answers · asked by tbone608 2

Spending the day at home with your pet bird and pigging out on your favourite foods and a DVD
Taking a sailboat out in calm waters on a warm night with a beautiful girl
Being in a log cabin in the snow with a roaring fire and watching the stars
Sitting on a hill at dusk in summer with good friends and drinks and watching the world go by
Walking through winter mist and fog on a foreign holiday
?

2007-01-26 06:01:52 · 13 answers · asked by malcolmg 6

Everyone assumes they have got it correct but they might have it wrong.

2007-01-26 05:47:47 · 8 answers · asked by malcolmg 6

Becasue we are more inteligent?

And if aliens came to earth with super inteligence then would that demote us to just another animal?

We think we are superior but are we?
Many living things on this earth can do things we never could so what makes us so important?

I would prefer if you could leave religion and god out of your answers.

2007-01-26 05:09:23 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous