Re: about asthma, evolution and sports

"Mark" <tentimes5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have started a thread at:
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/browse_frm/thread/e46ececdcc333f4d/db62b00683bc872e#db62b00683bc872e

Questions:
a. Does it imply that we, human species, which are mammals are
continuing to evolve?

Actually the mere fact that we exist and reproduce implies that we
continue to evolve.

b. What I mean is --- Will our lungs become better with the time?

Maybe. If differences in lung efficiency effect human reproduction.

Because there will be less and less percentage of oxygen in the media
we live in (air) ?

THIS is probably false. Oxygen is in approximate equilibrium, and is,
if anything, increasing in concentration.

c. Or will we die out as dinozaurs because we could not adapt?

Maybe.

d. Is the ever increasing number of people suffering from asthma a sign
that we are going to become extinct?

No. It is a sign we are entering a new environment - one called
civilization.

f. there are people that live on mountains as opposed to valleys.
Where the media we live in is an air thinner than in the valleys. On
the mountains. Using the concepts of adaptability and evoulution, would
it be correct to say that these people have better, more efficient
lungs than people that leave in the valley?

Maybe. But the difference may not be genetic. Merely being raised in
that environment may trigger adaptation to it.

h. Is there any suggestion from doctors for the people that have asthma
running in the family to try to find mates from the mountains instead
of the urban dwellers?

Wouldn't help in the least. The cause of asthma is not inefficient
lungs per se, it is *inflammation* of the passages. It is an autoimmune
reaction triggered by something in our environment.

h. Is there any evidence that people that come from the mountain areas
and live in the cities perform better in athletics than original valley
dwellers?
k. Is there any evidence that people that are from the valleys when
moving to mountains perform worse?

Yes.

l. Is there any evidence that children born from the people
historically living in the mountains are having smaller percentage of
lungs related diseases? Like asthma?

Not to my knowledge.

--
The peace of God be with you.

Stanley Friesen

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