12 inch dicks: The Future of Human Evolution?

[Gvac]

Hey buddy - what do you think the next evolutionary gain (or loss) we human beings will have?

Will we one day be born without an appendix? Will we gain something, like an organ to properly break down high fructose corn syrup?

I remember reading that many scientists felt we'd lose our pinky toes due to the fact that since we wear shoes so much it has atrophied to the point of being tremendously weak and unnecessary.

I'm hoping for gills.

[debit]

Hey buddy - what do you think the next evolutionary gain (or loss) we human beings will have?

Will we one day be born without an appendix? Will we gain something, like an organ to properly break down high fructose corn syrup?

I remember reading that many scientists felt we'd lose our pinky toes due to the fact that since we wear shoes so much it has atrophied to the point of being tremendously weak and unnecessary.

I'm hoping for gills.


I heard that they think the appendix is used to store helpful bacteria. When we get diarrhea, most of the bacteria in our system is flushed out and the appendix replenishes it. Thereby easing digestion.

I think you owe your appendix an apology.

[Dr Steve]

Hey buddy - what do you think the next evolutionary gain (or loss) we human beings will have?

Will we one day be born without an appendix? Will we gain something, like an organ to properly break down high fructose corn syrup?

I remember reading that many scientists felt we'd lose our pinky toes due to the fact that since we wear shoes so much it has atrophied to the point of being tremendously weak and unnecessary.

I'm hoping for gills.

I'm hoping for sixteen penises and a really, really flexible spine, but that's just me.

Here's the deal with evolution...it may be done with us. You need an external pressure to affect breeding patterns to bring on evolutionary changes, and frankly we've removed those from our lives for the most part.

Live under a hot-ass sun? No problem, nature doesn't need to select for kids with more melanin in their skin, we just slather on sunscreen.

We make our own environment...we have roofs over our heads, clean drinking water, purell...it's a whole different deal than when our ancestors were running away from sabertooth tigers and competing with Neanderthals for breeding rights.

Evolution doesn't work with pressures that don't affect breeding. For example: chop the tails off a million generations of rats and you still won't affect rats being born with tails. So not having something or not needing something won't affect the genetic progress of a species. But if you don't chop the tails off rats with smaller tails (or if you do even...it's this next part that's important) and breed them exclusively with other short tail rats, you'll eventually breed a race of rats that have no tails.

Someday there may be a virus that wipes out 98% of humanity. What if that 2% that are immune also have 12 inch dicks (the gene that conferred immunity also is near the gene that regulates penis length). The race of humans that grew out of that community would generally have 12 inch dicks, because that gene increased their survival. We're loaded with all kinds of weird random genetic things that someday because of external pressures may become really, really important.

so there.

[IMSlacker]

Someday there may be a virus that wipes out 98% of humanity. What if that 2% that are immune also have 12 inch dicks (the gene that conferred immunity also is near the gene that regulates penis length). The race of humans that grew out of that community would generally have 12 inch dicks, because that gene increased their survival.

Even the women? Gross!

[Dr Steve]

Even the women? Gross!

ha ha! cordwainer smith did a story about this once (if you don't know him, he was the BEST of the pulp science fiction writers...seriously the best that ever lived)...all the women died so these guys (who called themselves KLOPTS, for some reason) figured out how to reproduce asexually. Obviously, this caused some really dramatic changes in their psychology.

The story is called "The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal" ...it's truly bizarre and great. Check out the "Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith" a collection of great stories that I read and reread every couple of years or so.

Amazon has it. :smile:

[Doogie]

With this thread title I now I understand why you complain about every woman in the "Hot Chick Pic" thread

[Gvac]

With this thread title I now I understand why you complain about every woman in the "Hot Chick Pic" thread

I don't make the thread titles.

Dr. Steve does.

And I don't like what you're insinuating about him.

I don't like it one bit.

[Annie Waits]

would homosexuality be considered evolution? they obviously aren't part of God's creation but it might be part of evolution to control the human population.

[Dr Steve]

I don't make the thread titles.

Dr. Steve does.

And I don't like what you're insinuating about him.

I don't like it one bit.

yeah, I try to make thread titles that will get people scanning the various forums to come in here, without being deceptive. Except for that time I named a title after GVAC when it was Coach who actually posted the original. ha! I still chuckle when I think of that one...I can't remember the thread though...something like GVAC's BLOODY STOOLS or similar.

[Dr Steve]

would homosexuality be considered evolution? they obviously aren't part of God's creation but it might be part of evolution to control the human population.


First, I don't do politics and I don't presume to know God's mind :smile: Having raised a gay stepson who is a really cool adult who works with disabled kids, if this came up while we were sharing a beer, I'd vigorously disagree with you on that point. This is, however, the Weird Medicine forum, so I'll cop out and say (SNAP!) "Whatever!"

Now, the serious side of this is that there is a natural variability in all lifeforms that serves to keep our species vital and able to survive an amazing array of catastrophic events. It turns out that carrying the gene for sickle cell anemia confers a certain amount of resistance to Malaria. If you live in a malaria infested part of the world, you will have a slight edge in transmitting your genes to the next generation if you are more healthy than those who don't have any resistance to the disease.

What if there is a set of genes that causes someone to be gay? Or even a subset of people who are gay. And what if carrying two sets of these genes makes you gay, but carrying one set makes you straight but resistant to some Ebola-like virus that could wipe out the rest of humanity? It's hypothetical, but it's that kind of unpredictable result that makes evolution so tricky.

You could NEVER have predicted at the time that the shrews that were hiding from dinosaurs 65 million years ago would end up being the ancestors of the dominant species on the planet. So we cannot predict at all what will happen in the future evolutionarily speaking...we cannot know what random pressures are working on us even now that will make huge changes in the future. The 16 dick lobster eye blowhole people may rule the universe 20 million years from now, who knows?

[Crossweird]

For primates, male genital size correlates to the fidelity of the females. Female gorillas live in a kind of harem, completely devoted to a single male. There's no reason for the male to produce tons of goo, since his sperm doesn't compete with others inside the female. Gorillas have little packages.

Chimp females are slutty; they have sex with multiple partners. Male chimps need to produce lots of sperm in hopes that their DNA will be passed on instead of the guy getting sloppy seconds. Chimps have big scary junk.

We're in the middle, somewhere. But, if our girls would just pitch in and be a little more promiscuous...

EDIT: Wait. Did gvac want his men to have longer shafts or bigger balls?

[topless_mike]

12 inch dicks?

that time has come already. and he's from jersey. fucking represent.

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[PapaBear]

Twelve inch dicks seems like a logical evolutionary development, if people keep getting fat. It may be the only way to reach someday.