HayersToby Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 (edited) Not sure if you have seen the new but wow, evolution! Edited January 27, 2011 by HayersToby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Not sure if you have seen the new but wow, evolution! Our DNA is almost identical - i don't see what is so strange? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1a2bcio8 Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 (edited) Our DNA is almost identical - i don't see what is so strange? Supposedly the freeing up of hands (?), that follows from walking, played an extremely significant role in our species evolutionary development. It better allows for manipulation of our environment which has a positive feedback relationship with cognition and cogitation. Basically it seriously impacts on our ability to learn. Although given that gorillas can normally sit and use their hands to manipulte the world around them I'm not sure exactly how meaningful it is in this case. Edited January 27, 2011 by Ben Rowlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarf Shortage Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 For future reference, use this for this type'a shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 It's a shame it's held in captivity and thus making natural selection not so natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 It's a shame it's held in captivity and thus making natural selection not so natural. Surely it just needs to be mated with a human being? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Swales Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 That's pretty cool! Not far from where I grew up as well - I used to go there loads as a kid It's not evolution though, it's a learned behaviour. It needs at least a few generations of gorillas learning that and the ones whose legs are better suited to walking upright like that to have more success (survival & reproduction) so that gorillas in general, as a result of those genes being passed on, start to have legs more suited to walking upright for it to become an evolution. (My mrs. is a biologist and evolution's her favourite field, so I hear a lot about it - hence my kinda nerdy input here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Chimpanzees, gorillas, gibbons, macaques, spider monkeys, capuchins, and others are all frequent bipedal walkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 so's this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeperson45 Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Wasn't there one that actually made a spear and used it to kill another? I was more impressed when I heard that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Awww MGR! What a fantastic piece of machinery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Surely it just needs to be mated with a human being? Funny thing is, there's people in this country who'd think you're right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Anscombe Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) gorillas dna is pretty far away from ours actually. our closest dna match is with chimps not gorillas....... what this silver back has done is immiate what people have done SO nothing really new here....as chimps have been doing this for over 100 years... Now watching your adult male green iguana walk on his rear legs and beg like a dog for water cress is f**king cool Edited January 29, 2011 by Dave Anscombe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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