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Future Animals, Dinosaurs, Puppies?

Fuck that. Let's have a thread about the greatest animal of all. US!
>> Anonymous
you forgot the most deadliest for the nature
>> Anonymous
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>>305365
Yeah yeah, it turns out it's man...

But seriously, we are an incredible success story of evolution. Genetic language. Instinctive social networking skills. Physically formidable (not necessarily against all animals, but we can hold our own against medium sized predators). Comfortable in the water, if not particularly graceful.

And most important: Patient. Humans alone seem capable of repeating boring tasks again and again for no direct reward. It is our patience that makes us capable of complex social interaction, technological innovation, and physical training (making us capable of graceful deliberate movements unusual for other primates).

Face it, we rule.
>> Anonymous
>>305369
Not to mention that we can survive in almost any environment.
>> Anonymous
>>305369
>Face it, we rule.
wo say we don't ? fuck yeah
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>>305370
And counting...
>> Anonymous
>>305369
You know what makes humans really special? The way we learn. We don't just learn some stuff by trying to figure what others are doing, we actually absorb ways of doing things just by looking at them. And we go out of our way to cooperate, even when we get no short-term benefit out of it. Most of our survival mechanism are based on learned culture which can go through radical changes in one single generation. Only the most rapidly reproducing and mutating organisms like bacteria have much chance of keeping up with us. Humans aren't the best adapted species to any environment, but we are by far the most adaptable.
>> Anonymous
ITT: Ego.
>> Anonymous
>>305401
furry detected
>> Anonymous
>>305402

Not rly
>> SlowMope
>>305406
yeah totally. Go fuck your dog or something
>> Anonymous
Actually, we are a pretty badass species, but I think we are in decline.
We used to be hardy and powerful because we needed to be just to survive. It was kill or be killed and we proved that you don't fuck with the big dog.
Unfortunately with our early success has come late-game failure.
We are now stuck in a genetic and societal funk. We are over-breeding, and our breeding is uncontrolled. We are breeding ever greater weakness into the gene-pool and in our compassion we are dooming ourselves.
What we need to do is breed our race (I mean the human race, not just one ethnic skin-tone)
the way we selectively bred our domestic animals.
We can become faster, stronger, smarter, better.
Instead we are getting fatter, lazier, sicker, less resistant to disease and stupider. Add in all the mental, physical, and genetic defects that uncontrolled breeding is adding to the mix.
Unless we get our shit together, in a few hundred years our race may consist entirely of useless neckbearded scum. And that is a frightening future to contemplate.
>> Anonymous
>>305460
We will be alright as long as we stay diverse genetically.

We can have all the neckbeards we want, it just means when the next extinction hits and the world is flooded, all the survivors will be descended from Michael Phelps or something.
>> Anonymous
> We are over-breeding, and our breeding is uncontrolled

That's normal. Pretty much every species does that if there're enough food and no enemies.
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>>305460
Oh lawd, is dat sum scientific racism?
PS: Breeding is sooo last century. Genetic modification is where it's at.
>> Anonymous
>>305466
He's not even human, dood. The US government cross bred a man with a dolphin and got Michael Phelps.
>> Anonymous
Eh, genetic modification is still in it's birthing stages it's going to be a while before we see some payoff.
Meanwhile, by not letting people with crippling genetic disorders and hereditary diseases contribute to the gene-pool we can make an effort to strengthen ourselves. Or at least halt the continued weakening of our species until we do have the tools to custom tailor ourselves.
>> Anonymous
>>305496
This is NOT a good idea. Genetic weaknesses can become genetic strength under the right circumstances. See sickle cell anemia and huntington's disease. Breeding out genetic diseases is only good in the short run but puts humanity at greater risk of extinction.

I will say again, genetic diversity is key.
>> Anonymous
>>305500
So you think we'll be driven to extinction by diseases like malaria? Seems like you've seen too much fear-mongering pandemia fiction.

As for Huntington's, it has slight benefits during youth, but kills you when you get older. Evolution won't weed out such traits, because the disease breaks out only after the breeding age, but if we bred till old age like other apes, its effects would even out. The major point, though, is that it doesn't give foolproof protect against any major disease, so in the days of advanced medicine, there is no reason to keep this gene variant. We'll probably come up with a safe way of boosting the immune system in a similiar fashion pretty soon.

It's good to have genetic diversity, but not any sort of diversity. Most mutations are neutral to begin with (but may turn out to have benefits) and some mutations are fully beneficial from the get go, so there's no reason to force humans to have babies with crippling-to-lethal deletrious mutations that have minor benefits you might get from some less harmful mutation as well.
>> Anonymous
>>305460
>We can become Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Fix'd
>> Anonymous
Wow, no one has mentioned our CULTURE before.

Humongous amounts of information stored and traded down the generations makes the difference between us and the other animals, not to mention the fact that this information is growing exponetially.
The steps cultural evolution takes are so large, that it might even control genetic evolution someday because of the great scientific accomplishments.
>> Anonymous
>>305996
>great scientific accomplishments.

On the topic. Even though there is zero percent chance of this happening, a black hole made by the LHC would be the perfect(imo) way of humanity taking itself out.
>> Anonymous
>>305996
see:>>305381
>> Most of our survival mechanism are based on learned culture which can go through radical changes in one single generation.