Homo Futuris Options

[shivani]

I was watching a program , which suggests that Apes evolved into Homo Sapiens, not only because of adaption, but also that the process was driven by some genes inside us. We remembered what we have to become, and that memory helped us become human.

But the process is not yet over. We are still evolving.
Most of the information available is in french though .

Any other info on same??

MJ ???

[Mandrake]

Bibhas, I haven't gone through the lamba chauda post yet (will do so a li'l later), but just a curious question:

can you help me walk through a generalized time frame from ape to man changeover (or wherever to man)?

I am not a doubter of people's abilities and knowledge, and I wouldn't ever argue with a professional, as you are in your field.
But I wish to satisfy my curiosities, and answer my doubts. From here on, pls pls don't take my doubts and disbeliefs personally. I am in no way questioning your ability. I am only trying to widen the horizons of my 'flawed' understanding of certain processes...

[bibhas]

I am not a doubter of people's abilities and knowledge, and I wouldn't ever argue with a professional, as you are in your field.
But I wish to satisfy my curiosities, and answer my doubts. From here on, pls pls don't take my doubts and disbeliefs personally. I am in no way questioning your ability. I am only trying to widen the horizons of my 'flawed' understanding of certain processes...

Mandrake,
I did not take it personally at all, I was just a little surprised because you had said last year that you were a total believer in the theory of evolution. I am sorry if I came across as aggressive, this is all thanks due to our great american president who is trying to muck with the school curriculum. I am not an evolutionary biologist but this subject is close to my heart. So my ability is not an issue here at all and you are not questioning it, if it exists

But my acceptance of evolution is only in the mental aspect. Call it evolution or learning, but to me, there is still a lot of growth/evolution left in that department. What has never changed and will never change(purely in my opinion) is the physical configuration.

MJ, kuch samjha nahin yaar. Will you elaborate on what you mean by this ?

And I am sorry Bibhas, these are just opinions which don't withstand serious dissection - at least not at this stage. (I guess I'll need to go back and re-look at all the thoughts that brought me to these conclusions a long time ago).

Dissection nahiin kiya to phir kya mazaa MJ? Khair, whenever you say it.

I treat Mahabharat as a true fact. The kind of things that many of them were capable of doing, using their mental powers, seem today just so much fantasy, coz we've forgotten the methods of attaining such powers.

(Am I going along the wrong path in this thread?)

MJ, you've always been very staunch on this and I am very curious about the epics and the fact vs fiction aspect. And I am at that evidence gathering stage in this regard. So I would love for us to be able to discuss this at length and tap into that vast resource that you are. And if you think this isn't the thread, then there is that dormant thread in chit-o-chat that you had opened first for querying Hits. What sayest thou?