Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 11:25:26 GMT

royls@telus.net wrote:

>
> Oh, no we ain't. Selection pressures have become orders of magnitude
> more complex since the last Ice Age ended, but the chance element has
> declined commensurately. We've probably evolved more in the last 15K
> years than we did in the previous 50K.

All evidence indicates that humans have not changed physically in over
50K years. There is nothing to indicate Darwinian evolution is taking
place. However, there is the rapid form of social adaptation in which
people change their habits and ideas, rather than their genome. You
apparently do not understand variation and natural selection. There has
been NO essential change to the human genome as far back as anyone can
reckon. We are well adapated physically to the world as it is.

In addition one of the promoters of evolution is genetic isolation.
Google <Galapagos Darwin Finches>. The human race is a very non-isolated
bunch of mutts. We are six billion strang with a maximum separation of 6
or 7.

Bob Kolker