Homo evolutis

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Case in point.

Document(s):
1. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkg5geJMhG1qagynuo1_500.jpg
2. http://www.crimsondiva.net/uv/Elves.jpg

Go read:
1. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=(pdf)+%22Homo+Evolutis+Please+Meet+the+Next+Human+Species%22

I tried the links, they seem to be cartoons and advertisments.
I have to admit I was expecting something other than iPhone ads and untitled cartoon characters.

Nothing against gaming, I just expected evolution to be referenced in a link. Sucks to be old and clueless at times.

I will go away now.

Cute pics.

No value.

Next...

Go read?

That 160-page PDF? On my computer screen?
You have to be joking.

I don't even know what to say to that.

Are you trolling me?

It isn't a modus ponens, sure, and nor is it s tautology, if that's what you mean by "no value"; namely, at least there is a content even if it isn't "truth." "Truth" in itself is problematic.

Do you really need a long treatise?

When we talk, we chance the direct influence of evolution. As talk exchanges increase and become more complex, the greater the opportunity for influencing the unpredictable threads of evolutions. (That's with an "s.")

Unlike peacocks, etc., we anticipate and write about the complex mutations which emerge from our genome. And sometimes we predict rightly the nature of those changes, and where science is at a loss, there is a gap for us to narrate those changes.

The second link I found from your Google link was a 160-page PDF. http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bi ... sequence=5

Is that not what you were referring to?

Open the file. See what happens. See if you can knock yourself out.

I opened it. And I repeat, I am not reading it on my computer screen.
If it was in printed form, maybe, but I'm not going to print it out as that would cost more than I'm willing to spend (I don't own a printer).
Can't you summarise?

http://youtu.be/Syi9bqfFIdY

Nor do I wish to watch a 16-minute YouTube video; I don't have a high attention span for videos or for people talking.
What are the main points that are made?

1. Homo Evolutis
2. Please Meet the Next Human Species

Evolution is the natural state of a species. There are at least six types of hominids.

One of them describes the elves, or, I should say, "modern elves."

Who are these elves? What distinguishes them from normal humans?

First blush? To be quick about it: autists, aspies, and willies (Williams Syndrome).

Ever see a zonkey? Or a liger? Evolution is up to creation like that regardless of our involvement: in principle, the genetic material is there for such speciation. The fact that we contribute to speciation is an additional component to an already complex process.

Our phenotype is the same way. The question is how far our narratives take us into arrangineering (yes, neologism) the genetic materials we are already in the complicated throes of.

The Internet represents a point of departure into hyperevolution (homo evolutis: "a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of her species") . Research chemicals play a significant part here as well.

Look at it this way. Imagine if all the ants in the world were connected communicatively, somehow, by some stroke of imagination. Let it be microvibrations, etc. But imagine if all the ants of this planet had real-time communication, from all of their hives/farms/etc. What would they discuss?

Now imagine us. Today I see "startup" safe-havens to "startup" restaurants. We are all building the Web following the same principles, shared horizontally. When nature is left to its devices, we get very peculiar speciation that has interesting geological backstory. But nevertheless, speciation is geologically bounded. We are the first, of a generic species template: homo evolutis, to experience geologically unbounded real-time phenotype transfers. What might this say for the genetic materials which presumably draw a line in the "nature/nurture" debate?

We may need to consult our Epigenetics textbooks (or that PDF). Generally the D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook is a good guide for differentiating, in a modern context, elves from humans from dwarves from halflings from catfolk from (synthetic? stem cell?) vampires, etc.

Sleep it off dude.

Lay off the angel dust.