Fair enough, that's a perfectly legitimate starting point. What do *you* think the evidence points to? And remember you have to consider ALL the evidence, fossils are just a tiny bit of it and not particularly critical. Darwin managed to figure out the basics of evolution with no fossils at all, but from observations of living things.
You're labouring under some pretty basic misconceptions here Sir Joe. It's true that our technology shields us to a large extent from a lot of things that would be selection pressures under more "natural" conditions, like predation and disease, but it's a mistake to suggest evolution has ground to a halt. A relatively small fraction of humanity lives at the level of shelter and protection we in the West do, but there are still selection pressures on us. Some of them we've probably created ourselves with our technology, and our predatory ways with the planet are certainly strong selection pressures on every other living thing. The main driver of evolution is differential reproductive success. As long as not everybody lives to reproduce, you can take it as given that there are selection pressures still operating.
Minor evolution? lmao I think evolution is a bit like death, either you are dead or not. So either you evolve or you don't.
I bet African female elephants don't think it's minor. lmao
Proper evolution? Is that as opposed to IMproper evolution? lmao
There's a time limit on evolution now? roflmao
wow, what a dismally vacuous idea of what evolution is.
Elephants aren't evolving quickly enough so they will likely die off from starvaton or something. They are really poor in the efficiency department when it comes to food processing. Not so sure about rhinos and lions, but I suspect that rhinos may die off unless something can be done about poaching them.
Sure, why wouldn't they be? They're under selection pressures, every living thing is, all the time, that's the nature of the process. It didn't stop simply because intelligence came onto the scene and started making more dramatic changes than nature usually does. Your knowledge of evolution is pretty sketchy, and I think out of date.
I can see it. It will be species moving into new niches, displacing old species which had foothold. New species are born from current specimens that happen to be better suited.
So, you can't see any opportunities when the old guard are gone? Why not?
Once upon a time, Dinosaurs were very dominant. Then something happened which favored smaller animals. There's no reason the same thing can't happen again.
Well, actually I wasn't giving them human traits, I was recognizing their dolphin traits. But, I am not sure how you could say that they were killing because their prey was slightly different. It seems that even the experts aren't sure why they killed porpoises. Maybe they just went wacko. Maybe they are like orca and have "residents", "nomads" (or transients), and "offshore" types. In the orca, only the tranisents seem to kill things other than fish.
Dolphin traits like having fun. They are smart enough to use tools, so if people give them tools they can't make themselves, they can adapt to using human's tools, too, yup. I can imagine they can eat a lot of things humans do, but whether it's good for them or not, I don't know if they can determine.
Maybe. Nomad orcas eat other cetaceans and they belong to the delphinidae family the same as porpoises and dolphins.
There's always that, too but it's unlikely. It's more probable that they have different classes of dolphins like orcinus does.
Someone tries to shoo me away from food, I tend to get a bit belligerent, too. lol
