Originally posted by ziptnf
I probably wake up QWOPing.
Feb-20-2009 21:38
MrJiveBoJingles
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Pretty awesome. I took a "Biology of Pharmaceuticals" course and remember being amazed at all the steps it took just to get basic building blocks like cholesterol.
Feb-20-2009 21:38
coroknight
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I am amazed at how complex the human body is but I am also amazed at how long it took to get that way.
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Feb-20-2009 21:39
Meat187
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LOL This guy/woman said we are complex machines. . .WE CREATED MACHINES!!!! and we CREATE OURSELVES through lots of SEX!!!
I admire how complex the biological systems are, but to equate that to a machine is ludicrous.
~biological entities absorbing quantum background oscillations keeping our existence in a constant state of being~
Feb-20-2009 21:47
Nrg2Nfinit
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Originally posted by coroknight
I am amazed at how complex the human body is but I am also amazed at how long it took to get that way.
considering how old the earth is.. not very long.
humans are only 200,000 years old
the earth is 4,300,000,000
keep in mind also that we've only had a couple hundred years to learn how to metabolize all these enriched synthetic foods. Not much time to evolve there.
Feb-20-2009 21:48
coroknight
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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
considering how old the earth is.. not very long.
humans are only 200,000 years old
the earth is 4,300,000,000
keep in mind also that we've only had a couple hundred years to learn how to metabolize all these enriched synthetic foods. Not much time to evolve there.
I'm talking about all the time it took since the development of the first single cell organisms. That shit has been in development since the earth was cool enough to support life.
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Feb-20-2009 21:49
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
humans are only 200,000 years old
Yeah, but most of our genes evolved long before that, especially the ones involved in all the chemical processes outlined on that page. We share 90% of our genes with mice, and about 96% with chimps.
Feb-20-2009 21:50
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Yeah, but most of our genes evolved long before that, especially the ones involved in all the chemical processes outlined on that page. We share 90% of our genes with mice, and about 96% with chimps.
We're actually closer genetically to chimps, than chimps are to gorillas...and I think we're 98.6% genetically identical to a chimp
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Feb-20-2009 23:41
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by RickyM
We're actually closer genetically to chimps, than chimps are to gorillas...and I think we're 98.6% genetically identical to a chimp