More proof Man does not Cause Global Warming

[Avogadro]

Cancer can be caused by man chemicals but for the most part we now have cancer trends simply because we live much longer. as we age, our cells lose their incredible ability to transcript their recipe as they clone. It only takes a few screwed up cells for these damaged cells to proliferate out of control. We are now solving the cancer issues. We cure over 80% of leukemias, screening for breast, Colon cervical and prostate cancer are very noteworthy.

We can make a heart last much longer then it should. People don't die from single heart attacks anymore (rarely that is)

The future health problems of our population reside in the immunological world. Alot of infections out there and they are getting very tough. Man kills bug, bug adapts, man kills bug...

To get back to the response. Most cancer, today can be related to the aging population and better treatment of other issues. We keep you alive long enough for your own bodies to fug you up.

[XXXTheGoddessXXX]

Well, homo sapiens, unlike neanderfals, all have sound and vision senses slightly overlapping, which for one, enables us to understand language. This key mutation is instrumental to man's inventiveness, which affects to invention are exponential.
I dare say we would still be stuck in the stone-age if it was not for this mutation!

The idea that Neanderthals lacked complex language was widespread, despite concerns about the accuracy of reconstructions of the Neanderthal vocal tract, until 1983, when a Neanderthal hyoid bone was found at the Kebara Cave in Israel. The hyoid is a small bone that connects the musculature of the tongue and the larynx, and by bracing these structures against each other, allows a wider range of tongue and laryngeal movements than would otherwise be the case. Therefore, it seems to imply the presence of anatomical conditions for speech to occur. The bone that was found is virtually identical to that of modern humans.

Furthermore, the morphology of the outer and middle ear of Neanderthal ancestors, Homo heidelbergensis, found in Spain, suggests they had an auditory sensitivity similar to modern humans and very different from chimpanzees. Therefore, they were not only able to produce a wide range of sounds, they were also able to differentiate between these sounds.

Whew, good thing the neanderthals did in fact have language and the ability to understand otherwise me might be in the big bang era instead of the stone age. Whew.

The physical changes are not as much as you may think. Environment plays a vastly important part of our appearance. A short, hairy and heavily built frame would be ideal to survive in an ice-age.

You are aware that "ice age" simply means a few degrees colder on average than what we experience today right? Its not like its 10° in Florida when its supposed to be 100°.

You just have to look at the diversity of humans now -we all came from the same place!

We did? If you subscribe to evolution then we did not come from one place.

It is mainly the environment which changes our appearance, and we are in no ice-age.

From 24,000 years ago as a neanderthal, fast forward 20,000 years and tell me why man of 4,000 years ago looks that same as we do today. Tell me what magical transformations happened in 20,000 years but nothing has happened in the last 4,000 years.

[ynot]

Damn goddess with your wealth of knowledge shouldnt you being teaching or writing a book? It's a shame to waste an intellect like yours hidden away on the forums of a game that about 20 people play. Do the world a favor and spread your word to the masses and do us a favor and tell your story walking. You patrol the lobby and patrol the forums, cutting and pasting articles never playing a single game and boring the shit out of everyone.



FKIAB!

[Yilar]

Wether one believes in evolution or not, one has to admit that man-made religions is certainly a bunch of bullshit.

[heroray]

George WIll wrote this, and it hits my thoughts to a T.


Nature designed us as carnivores, but what does nature know about nature? Meat has been designated a menace. Among the 51 exhortations in Time magazine's " Global Warming Survival Guide" (April 9), No. 22 says a BMW is less responsible than a Big Mac for "climate change," that conveniently imprecise name for our peril. This is because the world meat industry produces 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, more than transportation produces. Nitrous oxide in manure (warming effect: 296 times greater than that of carbon) and methane from animal flatulence (23 times greater) mean that "a 16-oz. T-bone is like a Hummer on a plate."

Ben & Jerry's ice cream might be even more sinister: A gallon of it requires electricity-guzzling refrigeration and four gallons of milk produced by cows that simultaneously produce eight gallons of manure and flatulence with eight gallons of methane. The cows do this while consuming lots of grain and hay, which are cultivated by using tractor fuel, chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides, and transported by fuel-consuming trains and trucks.

Newsweek says most food travels at least 1,200 miles to get to Americans' plates, so buying local food will save fuel. Do not order halibut in Omaha

[XXXTheGoddessXXX]

Rayray read the same Time magazine article I did.

[Yilar]

Well you americans eat half a cow for dinner, it kidda makes sense

[crimepays]

yilar said:

Well you americans eat half a cow for dinner, it kidda makes sense

yep, and send the half we dont want to Denmark

[Yilar]

Nah, we are pork eaters, 4x as many pigs in Denmark as people...

[XXXTheGoddessXXX]

No argument here. ;D

[Yilar]

Most of them live with monoha though, over in the non-danish part of Denmark...

[rodrigom]

<[law]monoha> is fat

Now I know why he says that

[Emilioooo]

xxxthegoddessxxx said:

The idea that Neanderthals lacked complex language was widespread, despite concerns about the accuracy of reconstructions of the Neanderthal vocal tract, until 1983, when a Neanderthal hyoid bone was found at the Kebara Cave in Israel. The hyoid is a small bone that connects the musculature of the tongue and the larynx, and by bracing these structures against each other, allows a wider range of tongue and laryngeal movements than would otherwise be the case. Therefore, it seems to imply the presence of anatomical conditions for speech to occur. The bone that was found is virtually identical to that of modern humans.

Furthermore, the morphology of the outer and middle ear of Neanderthal ancestors, Homo heidelbergensis, found in Spain, suggests they had an auditory sensitivity similar to modern humans and very different from chimpanzees. Therefore, they were not only able to produce a wide range of sounds, they were also able to differentiate between these sounds.

And I suppose we use our appendices too? Male nipples (on any mammal) are used to breast feed, and you use your brain?

In the animal kingdom, there are lots of defunct body parts on any animal that have either stopped working from a distant past, or newly created and yet to be of use until future generations.

I never said the neanderthals did not have the capability to differentiate a wide range of sounds, and produce a huge spectrum of vocal noises for speech to occur, but that they just simply could not understand it in the same way we apply language.

Hear is a clear example of what I mean about sound and vision senses working together to aid language. I will say two sounds, one will be describing a Shuriken[/u], and the other I will be describing a Marsh-mellow[/u]. On first thoughts, I guarantee you will get it right!

Sound 1) BO-BO
Sound 2) KI-KI





It is simple to grasp what I am describing because the sounds imitate the shape of the item to some degree. To the neandathal man, yes, he probably would be able to differentiate the sounds and say them, but it would have little meaning to him. All their verbal language would be limited to lip movements imitating the actions and body language (I assume).

And to why this is so important to invention/creativity, I give you far too much credit to even consider going into any detail.

[whiplash]

Everything (and more) you ever wanted to know about nipples:

As you may know, every human being gets a unique set of 23 pairs of chromosomes at conception. These fall into two categories. One pair of chromosomes determines sex--the XX combination means you become female, the XY combination means you become male.

The other 22 pairs, the non-sex chromosomes (they're called autosomes), supply what we might call the standard equipment that all humans get. These 22 pairs constitute an all-purpose genetic blueprint that in effect is programmed for either maleness or femaleness by the sex chromosomes. The programming is done by the hormones secreted by the sex glands.

For example, the autosomes give you a voice box, while the sex hormones determine whether it's going to be a deep male voice or a high female voice. Similarly, the autosomes give you nipples, and the sex hormones determine whether said nipples are going to be functioning (in females) or not (in males).

One interesting consequence of the developmental set-up just described is that during the very early stages of fetal life, before the sex hormones have had a chance to do their stuff, all humans are basically bisexual. Among other things, you have two sets of primitive plumbing--one male, one female. Only one set develops into a mature urogenital system, but you retain traces of the other for the rest of your life.

It's tempting, therefore, to say that male nipples are yet another vestige of your carefree bisexual youth. Trouble is, male nipples are hardly vestigial. They're full-sized and fully equipped with blood vessels, nerves, and all the usual appurtenances of functioning organs. Why this should be so nobody knows--in some other mammals, such as rats and mice, male nipple development is completely suppressed by the male sex hormones. (Incidentally, don't start thinking that at one time our human male ancestors must have suckled their young. So far as anybody knows, male lactation has never developed in any mammalian species.)

Human nipples appear in the third or fourth week of development, well before the sex characteristics. (The sex hormones start to assert themselves at seven weeks.) As many as seven pairs of nipples are arranged along either side of a "milk line," a ridge of skin that runs from the upper chest to the navel.

Normally only one pair amounts to anything, but on about one baby in a hundred you can detect some vestige of the other ones, usually on the order of a freckle. There are cases of women who ended up with an extra breast, which made them freak show candidates not so many years ago. Luckily today the women can avail themselves of corrective surgery while the rest of us can watch Jenny Jones.

Anyway, both male and female babies are born with the main milk ducts intact--the gland that produces milk is there in the male, but it remains undeveloped unless stimulated by the female hormone, estrogen. Occasionally, a male baby is born with enough of his mother's estrogen in his body to produce a bizarre phenomenon known as "witches' milk," with the male glands, suitably stimulated, pumping away at the moment of birth.

In the adult male, the dormant glands can still be revived by a sufficient dose of estrogen. Actual lactation is rare--only a couple cases have been recorded. But at least one writer (Daly, 1978) has suggested that the "physiological impediments to the evolution of male lactation do not seem individually surmountable." Meaning we may yet see the dawn of the truly liberated household.

[rodrigom]

Anyway, both male and female babies are born with the main milk ducts intact--the gland that produces milk is there in the male, but it remains undeveloped unless stimulated by the female hormone, estrogen. Occasionally, a male baby is born with enough of his mother's estrogen in his body to produce a bizarre phenomenon known as "witches' milk," with the male glands, suitably stimulated, pumping away at the moment of birth.

ewww