Re: Yet another ID lie - Humans do evolve.

Sla#s wrote:
> Yet another ID lie - Humans do evolve.
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1880301,00.html
>
>
> The Sunday Times November 20, 2005
>
> "Scientists show we've been losing face for 10,000 years
> Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
>
> THE human face is shrinking. Research into people's appearance over the past
> 10,000 years has found that our ancestors' heads and faces were up to 30%
> larger than now.
> Changes in diet are thought to be the main cause. The switch to softer,
> farmed foods means that jawbones, teeth, skulls and muscles do not need to
> be as strong as in the past.
>
> The shrinkage has been blamed for a surge in dental problems caused by
> crooked or overlapping teeth.
>
> "Over the past 10,000 years there has been a trend toward rounder skulls
> with smaller faces and jaws," said Clark Spencer Larsen, professor of
> anthropology at Ohio State University. ...
>
> Charles Loring Brace, professor of anthropology at the University of
> Michigan, said: "Human faces are shrinking by 1%-2% every 1,000 years.
>
> "What's more, we are growing less teeth. Ten thousand years ago everyone
> grew wisdom teeth but now only half of us get them, and other teeth like the
> lateral incisors have become much smaller. This is evolution in action."
> ....
>
> ....................
> Slatts
>

Firstly, wouldn't a changing diet account for this change and wouldn't
this be acquired during the life of individuals?

Secondly, can you please demonstrate what survival pressures made the
individuals with more wisdom teeth/larger jaws and skulls die off in
order for the wisdom toothless/small jaw and skull individuals to become
predominant?

Is this the best evolutionary theory can do to prove major
modifications, (macroevolution especially) that can account for, for
example, man evolving to H. Sapiens from primates?

If anything, this is proof of Lamarckism and I dare any of the
scientists in this forum to prove otherwise.

Nicola

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