Jun 20 2012: Not quite, Canis and Equus are genera. You can sometimes breed within a genus, but you won't get fertile offspring.
Wolves and dogs (and dingos) are all subspecies of the same species - Canis Lupus. They can have fertile offspring. So can the young of dogs and coyotes, but the offspring lose fertility with each generation, so they can't really form a sustainable population.
Jun 19 2012: As a geek myself, and having known and worked with many geeks, I can personally reassure you that matching based on external observation is alive and well.
The hypothesis that high-functioning autism (Asperger's) is self-selecting seems very sketchy. If there's any effect there at all, and there very well may not be, it seems reasonable to assume that it's caused by forced geographical proximity.
Jun 19 2012: The culture challenges them to interact with an increasingly high-speed flow of information. Books to Broadcast TV to Cable TV to Internet to Broadband to Mobile.
But though there may be some form of evolutionary process occurring inside of an individual as neurons compete for stimulus, this is individual adaptation, not evolution of the species.
Jun 19 2012: If you just pick your own definition of what you consider a new species to be, then we could all already be different species from each other, right now. It robs the word of meaning.
Jun 12 2012: I find it frightening that people in your position could cause a disruption in people's lives all out of proportion to your training in the matter. People who make decisions that affect other people's lives need to have a better command of the situation than what they picked up in an ignorant hack's 18-minute lecture - and I am not referring to Dr. Klin.
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Wolves and dogs (and dingos) are all subspecies of the same species - Canis Lupus. They can have fertile offspring. So can the young of dogs and coyotes, but the offspring lose fertility with each generation, so they can't really form a sustainable population.
A reply on Talk: Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
The hypothesis that high-functioning autism (Asperger's) is self-selecting seems very sketchy. If there's any effect there at all, and there very well may not be, it seems reasonable to assume that it's caused by forced geographical proximity.
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A reply on Talk: Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
But though there may be some form of evolutionary process occurring inside of an individual as neurons compete for stimulus, this is individual adaptation, not evolution of the species.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue.html
instead, which is presented by somebody who actually has more than just the faintest clue what he's talking about.
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