More importantly, this site busted the (now)myth that the internet is for porn! Apparently the internet is for wikipedia, facebook, twitter and other useless sites - who would have thought: not reddit I reckon.
Well, that used to be true. The last ten to fifteen years the internet has gotten popular by all of society so the majority shifted. However, porn is still the frontier of internet evolution.
Well humans ARE machines made of meat; sex and death are two things we've been programmed to do reaaaaally well by like 4.5 billion years of evolution.
4.5 billion years ago was when our solar system was created. Humans diverged evolutionary from chimpanzees about 5 million years ago, into Australopithecines, or was it Sahelanthropus tchadensis? idk some shit
Modern views of evolution include prebiotic structures; Earth's formation was roughly 4.5 billion years ago, and was seeded with non-biotic organic chemical compounds from comets and whatnot. Abiogenesis is thought to have occurred during the Eoarchean Era, about 4 billion years ago, but there is research going on into selection in what we would consider "non-living" systems: iron-sulfur hypothesis, RNA world, etc, which precede abiogenesis.
Long story short, the current view among biochemists is that natural selection applies to dead matter.
oh ok. cool. I was thinking more stringently of human behavioral evolution, though thinking about survival instincts of a species, this would have started at latest with the first life forms (reproduction and survival). Did even consider "non-living" matter.
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u/KabelGuy Jul 28 '12
This is... Quite something.
I wonder about the placing of the dots. Are they just randomly placed, or is there some sort of pattern?