psi20 Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 I was thinking about it the other day. Does evolution and natural selection mean that one day my descendents will be eating and preying on each other? That's just weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 no, that doesn`t happen. well not the Eating part anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psi20 Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Why not though? If a lion and antelope share the same ancestor, or shark and fish, or any other predator-prey pair, wouldn't that mean one day my descendents would be eating one another? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 it is possible if humans speciate and one species or the other loses intelligence and becomes a food animal. seems unlikely though as intelligence is our niche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDarwin Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 it is possible if humans speciate and one species or the other loses intelligence and becomes a food animal. seems unlikely though as intelligence is our niche. Why do you need to lose intelligence to become a food animal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisyphus Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 It's possible but unlikely. Yes, a lion and an antelope share a common ancestor, but 95% of the animals that lived alongside that common ancestor have since had their lines extinguished. That's the more likely scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Your premise implies that Jeffrey Dahmer is more evolved than the rest of us. Wouldn't eating fellow humans be more of a function of the available quantity of other food sources, not natural selection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Your premise implies that Jeffrey Dahmer is more evolved than the rest of us. Wouldn't eating fellow humans be more of a function of the available quantity of other food sources, not natural selection? no, it doesn't. it implies that the human species will speciate and one of those species will be a food stuff to the other species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 no, it doesn't. it implies that the human species will speciate and one of those species will be a food stuff to the other species. I guess I should have used the TongueInCheek tab. [/sarcasm] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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