And animals have evolved perceptibly in my lifetime, they still don't believe in evolution. I grew up in a culture of Jesus Freaks. The way they place faith above evidence and logic is so disturbing and irritating to me
? Which animals? Evolution requires orders of magnitude longer time spans. I doubt we're perceptibly different (in any genetic sense) than Homo sapiens from 200,000 years ago. I'm not sure the change from that point is perceptible.
> Jesus Freaks
That people accept that language on HN would seem to tell us a lot about the population here.
Acktually (push glasses) selective breeding is a form of evolution and it takes only a few generations to see perceptible changes.
If you're around various ethnic groups long enough, you'll start recognizing which group a person you are unacquainted with belongs to. And I don't mean the obvious differences.
Sort of like "My Fair Lady" where the linguist could tell where a person came from by the way they spoke.
pale skin perhaps only after agriculture replaced meat eating for D3 production.
despite what Sliders intimated, Europeans are more Cro-mag than 'thals ;)