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Human Evolution in the Fast Lane.

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:34:59 +0000

For decades the consensus view among the public as well as the worlds preeminent biologistshas been that human evolution is over. Since modern Homo sapiens emerged 50,000 years ago, natural selection has almost become irrelevant to us, the influential Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould proclaimed. There have been no biological changes. Everything weve called culture and civilization weve built with the same body and brain.

This view has become so entrenched that it is practically doctrine. Even the founders of evolutionary psychology, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, signed on to the notion that our brains were mostly sculpted during the long period when we were hunter-gatherers and have changed little since. Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind, they wrote in a background piece on the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

So to suggest that humans have undergone an evolutionary makeover from Stone Age times to the present is nothing short of blasphemous. Yet a team of researchers has done just that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123062/

Like in 1984

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:11:29 +0000

Some things just never happened...

Computer blocking.

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 05:53:19 +0000

Well, i'm not entirely sure I picked the correct name for the topic. But,

I was in a conversation last night. I was discussing of ways to block Multikeyers. The first logical step was the allow 1 key per IP. But then the topic of wireless router user's. Me, being someone who shares an IP with multiple computers can relate. So when the idea of allowing one key per computer. But I don't know anyway that could be done.

So, out of blatant curiosity, I'm asking if anyone has managed to come up with a system such as that.

Double click.

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:28:54 +0000

I've been having trouble coming up with a good double click command. I want it so the person can double click a mob of a NPC and the NPC talks with that I told it to responde with. Any suggestions on a easy version of this.