Wednesday, February 5, 2020

A BUZZARD EGG OMELET NUMBER #34







For a couple of years, I have been saying that we are not only witnessing climate change, but also an evolution of the human species.


Back in the fifties, when I was a teenager, six feet was tall for a boy or man.  I am six feet tall, and when my wife and I go to the college gym to walk the track, the young men passing me on the track make me look diminutive – these young guys and many of the girls are well over six feet tall.


Stanford University just published a research stating that today’s people are fatter, taller and living longer.   The standard human temperature has been standardized for the last fifty years as 98.6, but today's research has set the new norm as 97.5.
  

In my opinion, this is a documented evolutionary change in the human species that is occurring as a result of a rapid societal change brought about by the technological revolution of the last thirty years.



  

Alvin Toffler, celebrated author of the book Future Shock published in 1970, predicted that humans would have difficulty adjusting to rapid change.   He was monumentally wrong; however, he did, meticulously, document how changes to human society and living environment had, for millennium, occurred very slowly – allowing mankind to adjust to change without shock.



 

Changes in societies brought about changes in living environments that resulted, over a period of time, in changes in the human animal; but as these changes took place over centuries, the evolution of the human being was barely perceptible from generation to generation. 





We are now in a new era for rapid social change.  Mankind’s ability to adjust to change has been the hallmark of his survival.   The rate of evolutionary change seems to keep pace with the rate of social change in the species; therefore, we can expect to see rapid changes in human mutation within a few generations.  








the Ol’Buzzard









3 comments:

  1. I think it's due to plentiful food and good medical care, including during pregnancy.

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  2. The fact that obesity is rampit is mostly from the "it'll do it for you" society. Technology has become the fat person't slave, or is that the other way around.

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  3. All my life my body temperature's varied from 97.9 to 99.1, without a fever
    ...just a par-for-the-course norm.

    98.7 is simply a "baseline" figure. The normal body temperature can be anything from 97.5 to 99.5, and all points in-between.
    This has always been the case.

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