Today we know many aspects of our history and why did we developed some features and abilities. Scientists learn everyday how we evolve to fit survival and progress. The bald guys are genetically more evolved than the hairy guys and that’s because now we have roofs over our head and we don’t need hair to protect our skin. In other areas like food supply and the means to get it we evolved too fast and our bodies didn’t have time enough to adjust. We got fat because it’s easier today to get food. Of course a kid growing in a poor area in Africa would disagree but mostly today is much easier. Our bodies are getting used to more dangerous viruses and bacteria. But things are changing faster and faster and that makes the gap between our biological evolution and our habitat evolution bigger and bigger. An example of that is the solar protection factor we are using. In the 60’s that didn’t even exist. I remember in the 70’s my mom using tanning lotion with no protection and lying at the sun at noon. Today if i do that i’ll use solar protection factor 45. In twenty years it’ll get to more than a hundred just to go to work. Our bodies didn’t have the time to adjust to that. I wonder what will happen in the next hundred years. Things are changing really fast. I remember when i spent 5 hours on the internet in the 90’s. My dad told me i was crazy and i felt really dizzy. Today most people as myself use to spend more than 5 hours a day doing things online. And we are getting fatter and lazy. I’m lucky for not being really good in predictions. I would not sleep thinking about what we will look like in a hundred years. I hope this curve changes and things get a little more healthy.
Hahaha…
I’ve been told I still need to evolve.
I don’t think that was intended as a compliment.
🙂
Well Sir… It doesn’t really sounds like a compliment but evolution as i know is not always good! Growing up for an example is a louzy kind of evolution. I’m sure you are well just the way you are…
I disagree that being on the internet is being lazy. When I was in college in Arizona my school had a nice and large computer lab. I took a class called Microsoft Office Applications and aced it and I took a computer graphics course and aced that too. I learned how to make a website (this was back in the late 1990’s) using html language and I made a website with some links on it. I was able to share it with my mother who was all of the way acrossed the country and I think it impressed her. There were many smart guys in there helping us wannabes as far as computer knowledge and I was in my early twenties in that lab late at night when I would have rather been at my apartment after a long day of school or with my boyfriend, but I had to do the work. I believe that my hard work paid off. I would also go in there to print up papers (essays). I am covetously fond of my memories of may college students waiting patiently to share the ample printers with each other.
It has been strongly implied to me that I need to de-evolve and I do not think that it was meant as a compliment. Women take it one way men the other. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Sun factor? You mean people don’t use cooking oil any more?
I’ve never sunbathed, so I’ve never used either.
LOL… No cooking oil… i remember when i was young some girls would use coca cola on the skin to tan faster!!
I didn’t realise this was the reason behind baldness!
That’s evolution with a not really fancy result…lol