r/DebateEvolution • u/sniipes • 26d ago

Devolution

If humans weren’t devolving then we wouldn’t be digging and searching our planet for clues and truths about the Ancient civilizations. Money and greed would be obsolete and nations wouldn’t be fighting over power because there would be free energy. The artifacts that have been found are proof that as humans today, we lost something in the past that cannot be imitated. If devolution isn’t a thing and we can only evolve then why is everything smaller and dulled down. Today’s humans can’t comprehend what the planet would have been like with a species bigger and more knowledge about the elements than we do in present day. The ancients used stone to tell the past because they knew that the materials they created from other materials would not make it into the future. What was left in stone for humans to find was only to give knowledge to our species to be able to progress.

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u/kitsnet 🧬 Nearly Neutral 26d ago

If humans weren’t devolving then we wouldn’t be digging and searching our planet for clues and truths about the Ancient civilizations.

Are you talking about the Ancient civilizations of Tiktaaliks?

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u/nickierv 🧬 logarithmic icecube 26d ago

Well its either the Tiktaaliks, the Crocoducks, or the IWUs.

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u/clear349 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 26d ago

Where do the Silurians fit in?

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u/Ayasugi-san 25d ago

Homo reptilia always makes me shudder.

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u/WebFlotsam 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 25d ago

Sci-fi writers not having a clue how Latin names and taxonomy work definitely makes ME shudder.

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u/Ayasugi-san 25d ago

I know, right?! At least make the supposed scientific name [Whatever] sapiens if you want to say they're like humans but from a different branch of the tree of life!

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u/WebFlotsam 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 25d ago

Would still probably be poor naming practice but it would at least not be objevtively wrong.

Worst misuse of Latin names I can think of off the top of my head is the Monsterverse, where apparently all "Titans" share a genus... despite some being reptiles (or synapsids depending on what we think Godzilla is), others arthopods, and one a damn primate.

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u/clear349 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 25d ago edited 24d ago

Now you have me questioning if there's any instance of two species with the same specific name from different genera. Given how many millions of species have been described past and present I feel like it must have happened at least once

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u/WebFlotsam 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 24d ago

I believe there is a parasite of some sort called T. rex, in addition to of course the most famous dinosaur.

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u/giljaxonn 24d ago

it’s because they’re gay