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Diatom

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  1. You can never escape natural selection and therfor evolution. Even if we cannot notice it we are evolving, even if it is evolution to stay as we are as with the ceolocanth.
  2. Why would you? Evolution can stand on its own. There is no need for a God.
  3. I do not think it is hard to see where we are going in the short term. The long term is too hard to predict and it is foolhardy to do so, unless it is just for some speculative fun. Look at what society deems sexually attractive. There are many examples in the animal world of sexual characters far outweighing characters of survival, i.e. the peacock's feather. Men prefer slender symetrical women with a nice set of breasts. Women prefer strong intelligent men. These are just generalizations mind you. Also take note that the more successful a person is they are less likely to have many children. The average upper class family may only have 1 or 2 children, while a lower class family may have 5 or 6. If there are characters that tend to appear in upper class individuals they may soon disappear (I am not a social darwinist this is pure speculation). Europeans are not replacing themselves while the populations of the third world are growing at a very steep geometric rate. Characters in the that are common in third world populations will become more common in the human gene pool.
  4. Wouldn't their metabolism include the protiens that they reform into other prions?
  5. There are many species of Fungus that have never been observed participating in sexual reproduction, the deuteromycetes. They are generally lumped together with ascomycetes during classification because most fungi, except the basidiomycetes which reproduce only sexually, reproduce both asexually and sexually. It is thought that the sexual stage exists but has never been observed.
  6. I just finished Richard Dawkins' book "The Selfish Gene". In it he devotes and entire chapter to the concept of the meme. This is the first time I have ever heard of this concept. "The Selfish Gene" was written in 1976, I was wondering if the concept of memes has gained a lot of ground since then and is generally accepted today.
  7. So are prions considered life? Since they can self-replicate.
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