Evolution of man. Are you more advanced than your neighbour?

Question

OK...Can anyone help here?

When you look at your family tree, you have....

1. YOU
2. MUM
3. GRAN
4. GREAT GRAN
5. GREAT GREAT GRAN
6. GREAT GREAT GREAT GRAN
7. GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRAN
8. ETC ETC
9. ETC
10. ETC

Eventually you will get to Neanderthal gran, maybe 60 or 100 GREAT GREATS.

My question is this...

If I have 200 GREAT GREAT ETC until I get to Neanderthal gran and my next door neighbour has only 50 GREAT GREAT...

Does that mean I am more genetically advanced than my red neck neighbour??

It is like a car the more designs a car has had the more stylish it normally is.

I guess what I am trying to say or explain is that some of us are more evolved than others. This reflects in our behaviour and our attitude.

Some people are compassionate and some people just don't get it.

This could then be down to how many GREAT GREATS you have.

The more you have the more evolved you are.

Any suggestions on this idea?

If someones relations all had a child at the age of 16 and someone elses all had a child at 25 then the family that had a child at 16 will have more relations than that of 25 with in a 500 year span (this is only an example).

A new genetic developement every 16 years compared to 25.

Answer 1

EVOLUTION

The introduction to Genesis and to the whole Bible ascribes everything to the living God, creating, making, acting, moving, and speaking. There is no room for evolution without a flat denial of Divine revelation. One must be true the other false. All of God’s works are good, great, wondrous, and perfect.

Man starts from nothing. He begins in helplessness, ignorance, and inexperience. All his works, therefore, proceed on the principle of evolution. This principle is only seen in human affairs: from the hut to the palace; from the canoe to the ocean liner; from the spade to the plowshare to machines. But the birds build their nests today as at the beginning. There is growth and development within man, but no passing, change, or evolution out from one into another.

For this theory or fallacy of evolution to be true there would be evident stages of evolution today. You would be able to find species in many stages of evolution in nature right now. For this theory or fallacy of evolution to be true there would be no God. And that’s exactly what evolutionists believe and are trying prove. The evolutionist bases his or her conclusions on human assumptions and reasoning, instead of on the documentary evidence of the manuscripts.

Answer 2

yes, first you should read a tad...

Neandertals went extinct about 20-30,000 years ago. Modern man descends from the African counterpart of the European Neandertal. Nobody here descends from Neandertals.

As for the rest of your idea, evolution doesn't really work like that. While we all have certain traits that are more or less advanced than others in general we ALL are just as evolved as everybody else. For instance baldness clearly is a recent evolutionary phenomena and not everybody has it, however it would be incorrect to say that bald people are more evolutionary advanced than their furry headed contemporaries. The same could be said for those that have a small jaw or tall forhead.

Evolution works by some members of a species develop a trait that becomes useful and aids in his her survival, because that particular effect no longer holds true the future evolution of humanity is likely to be channeled by man's preferences i/e if society dictates that wide eye, long thin necks are preferable on females that trait will likely become dominant in our species.

Answer 3

I can't see how your neighbour could have had so many fewer ancestors in the same time as you. You don't explain this.

Even if it was so, there hasn't been much evolution of recent years, because we control our environment and are not at its mercy (THIS MAY CHANGE SOON!)

I don't think compassion has anything to do with evolution. It's hard to know if Neanderthal man was compassionate, but he had some kind of feelings if you look how he buried his dead etc.

I don't think you are more evolved than your neighbour, even if they have got a red neck. How compassionate of you to tell us all.

I however am more evolved than most people. The proof of this is that my toes are really short. Some people have really long squiggly toes, some with hairs on......But even some of these are really nice people.

Answer 4

Though it is still somewhat debated there is very little chance that you have a Neanderthal Gran. Modern humans developed from a line of sapiens that (probably) did not include the Neanderthals. Irregardless, we all have the same number of great grans. The only way for someone to have less is if their linage magically appeared from somewhere.

Answer 5

You thinking line is somewhat incorrect. Some times evolution is based on the quantities, but in other in qualities. An in all case quantities and qualities are joined... so, we cannot make a clear judgment. Your participation in the life(quantity and quality) adds potential to the new life. There is a lot of people that believe in Karma. They say that the experience here, today, will bring influences to next live... that explain almost the same but you must believe Reincarnation.

Answer 6

Your question is rather approximately paleontology, extremely than evolution. it somewhat is genuine that human beings have been around a minimum of 30,000 years, and it remains a secret why civilisation has in basic terms been around for about 9000 years. a probable threat is that the there replaced into some style of civilisation, besides the undeniable fact that primitive, long in the previous that besides the undeniable fact that it replaced into wiped out for some reason. it somewhat is speculated that a comet or asteroid exploded over North u . s . some 13000 years in the past, and that explosion could have brought about wooded area fires everywhere in the continent and at last led the international right into a millennium long era of chilly climate. perhaps this destroyed any civilisation guy had built.

Answer 7

its not really to do with how many reletives you have had, just because you say that you have more is unlikely to mean anything, as you are both likely to have had the same amount of reletives in the last 20,000 years or so anyway so im not sure what you mean by that, it is not really fair to say that one is more evolved than someone else perhaps it is more accurate to say that you are better suited to your current environment, even so genetics does not seem to have a big effect on behaviour, although I would not argue that it has none, social environment is far more important.

Answer 8

You can tell that others aren't as smart as you are, You can tell right away if they are rednecks....(Ie, My neighbours) And you can simply "Feel" they don't understand as much as you do....
Now as for if you have more Gran's than they do that makes you more advanced, No, I Don't think that's a plausible theory...Because real advancements haven't even been able to be tested or recognized as advancements unless you want to talk about how video games are shaping out youth with a better hand eye coordination than we had...

Answer 9

You can't be "more" or "less" advanced.
You can't be "more" or "less" evolved.

Slugs are perfectly suited to their environment. If we shoved you down a wet hole, you'd suffocate. Does that make the slug more evolved than you? No, it's suited to its environment and you're suited to yours. (Although in your case.......never mind)

Individuals do not evolve. Populations do. You're born with certain DNA genetic blueprint. You either survive and pass it on or you don't. But you don't get to change the blueprint. YOU, individually, cannot evolve.

Answer 10

depends what you mean by genetically advanced. intelligence and physical attributes don't necessarily increase from one generation to the next. Can one person more 'evolved' than the next?