Yeah, that’s like saying you could domesticate foxes in less than a human generation, or have adult lactose tolerance increase from 0% to 99.x% in some populations in under 4,000 years. Does this guy think we’re completely credulous?
The traits that I am aware of that show strong evolution all have had thousands of years to be selected for, like lactose tolerance in people descended from herders, resistance to high altitude with a hemoglobin change in Tibet, apparent sexual selection for blue eyes in Europeans and thick hair in East Asians, smaller stature in basically all long-term agriculturalist populations...
-Cellbioguy, elsewhere in thread.
I suspect you’ve misidentified his contention here; he clearly doesn’t seem to think humans haven’t evolved within the Holocene.
To almost anyone who knows much about evolutionary biology its not controvertial but positively laughable.
Cites?
Yeah, that’s like saying you could domesticate foxes in less than a human generation, or have adult lactose tolerance increase from 0% to 99.x% in some populations in under 4,000 years. Does this guy think we’re completely credulous?
-Cellbioguy, elsewhere in thread.
I suspect you’ve misidentified his contention here; he clearly doesn’t seem to think humans haven’t evolved within the Holocene.