What is the evolutionary advantage of swamp-ass? Pheromones?
warding off butt-predators
>>8974648
curb overpopulation[citation needed]
>>8974648
the great question of our time OP
I think the failure to contain the obesity epidemic is probably the worst failure of medical science in living memory. We contained HIV, but we can't contain McDonalds.
>>8974514
Look into the anxiety epidemic in America. You'll shit your pants.
>>8974528
Also known as the "I don't have enough money to live on" epidemic
>>8974528
Also known as the tumblr epidemic
Why aren't we able to design our own babies yet?
>>8974501
Still no good way to modify genomes. CRISPR was recently found to introduce a number of mutations.
>>8974501
I think Thailand is in on the action. It's $9000 to pick the gender.
>>8974501
working on it lad, the tech is still very very new
give it a few years while we work out the kinks
would probably be bad to fuck something like this up
So I was home schooled by my cracker parents.
I don't know anything but arithmetic.
Where do I start If I want to study a engineering?
Currently working at a construction company
>>8974308
>Where do I start If I want to study a engineering?
Suck another man's cock.
>>8974308
>Currently working at a construction company
>I don't know anything but arithmetic.
>Where do I start If I want to study a engineering?
shit nigga, you are already 90% of the way there. just start community college classes and transfer to a 4 year.
>>8974308
So you want to be an engineer, answer these two questions:
>can you count past seven?
>top or bottom?
- The next statement is true.
- The previous statement is false.
Is the first statement true? Or is it false?
Write out a program and find out.
>>8973567
only if you allow for self referential statements.
Here is a nice proof that OP is a fag
[math]\text{Let }Q\text{ be given by:}[/math]
[eqn]Q : = \left(Q \implies A\right)[/eqn][math]\text{Where }A\text{ is defined as the statement; } A := \text{OP is a fag}[/math]
[math]\text{Suppose } Q \text{ is false, then the implication given above holds.}[/math]
[math]\text{But this in turn must mean that }Q \text{ is true}[/math]
[math]\text{We resolve this contradiction by saying that }Q \text{ is not false, meaning } Q \text{ is true.} [/math]
[math]\text{But this must mean that }A \text{ is true!}[/math]
[math]\text{Therefore, OP is a fag.} \quad \blacksquare [/math]
>>8973567
Neither have EVIDENCE.
So neither are valid. If they were it would be proof by assertion and a circular argument fallacy.
And thats the last time i want to see this philosocrap on my /sci/.
Is it common practice in science to be wrong but assert that you weren't wrong but rather "miscalculated"?
Has it become a convenience in scientific speculation to reach calculations with figures reaching indescribable/unverifiable distances and time scales to protect validity of the theory?
If a theory utilizes immeasurable time scales and distances can they ever be proven wrong?
Say evolution consensus recently determined homo sapien origins to 500,000 years
new discovery forces consensus to claim evolution of modern humans occured 100,00 years sooner than previous figure.
How do they date the rock cast of bones, and stone tools?
How in anyway can this be verified emperically, except by sifting around the artifact of interest
for organic matter to date to verify a nonorganic material such as a fossil, which is a rock cast from millions of years of organic material being replaced.
I find it strange that with theories such as the big bang which was created by a Jesuit Catholic priest Georges Le Maitre and Evolution, if you simply use large distances and time periods, you can shelter your theory indefinitely even if it doesn't match the reality of new discoveries.
Is it Thursday already?
The methodology used to date things is based on principles, axioms, "common sense", etc. I don't think the handful of people who claim to actually do the procedure and can verify this claim even bother to go through it half the time. They just put an sanctioned number on it and call it a day.
Post your science cuties
claimed
>>8973450
This guy looks like a hobo. Always cracks me up.
There's something that been on my mind lately, why do some people have fetishes for people that would leave and inferior offspring?
Like bbw fetish, I jack it to big tittied fatties sometimes but if I were to knock one up irl the kid would be inferior to someone more healthy, isn't like the opposite of Darwinism?
It might also be worth noting that I feel better after jacking it to a hottie (like Hitomi Tanaka) than a bbw, idk.
I'm sure other people have fetishes for sickly or unhealthy people but why, it doesn't seem to make sense, I wanted to know on a scientific level so I thought this place would be appropriate.
For all I know it could just be the big titties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
So according to that post humans are part of the K selection strategy, which means we focus on fewer offspring that are strong and likely to make it to adulthood if I followed that correctly.
But how does that explain wanted to have sex with someone who is not fit?
Is it that a lot of people these days are unhealthy so we familiarise with that and forget the ideal healthy mate?
Or is it just that we can get aroused by most things human so we can fuck anything and continue the human race?
On another note that same could be said for homosexuals, how is that part of Darwinism?
(Just want to stress I got nothing against homosexuality, I'm just interested on a scientific stand point)
>the explanation is trivial and is left as an exercise to the reader
>op is a faggot
>>8973075
Those are my favourite textbooks. They don't waste my time with trifles.
>tfw to stupid to find the trivial proof
How different will the contents of this book be from a modern textbook for calc III, stats, or diff e?
no difference since no advances have been made in mathematics since newton
>>8973058
Not true. Standard tools today might not have been standard back then, group theory for example and perhaps contour integration.
>>8973061
But within the confines of course material for multivariable calculus, intro statistics (except for the obvious computational advancements), and intro differential equations for engineers, has there been a change?
If antimatter exists why can't we see it on our Earth?
Our eyes don't exist
cool fidget spinners
>>8972785
Bullshit, we have seen antimatter on earth. Like literally seen it:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/first-observation-of-antimatters-spectrum-looks-like-regular-matter/
It took lasers and some really sensistive photodetectors, but yeah, we can fucking see it
What do you think researchers should be paid /sci/?
>>8966875
The only fair wage: what they're worth on the market.
>>8966882
this
>>8966882
Boo capitalist shitheads.
I made this.
>>8960759
That explanation made it way more harder to understand.
>>8961110
I will never know why this image never ceases to make me laugh
It seems almost inevitable to me that large swathes of non-white populations will be able to pass as white if CRISPR ever gets perfected. Phenotype mainly consists of two things:
1) Pigmentation - We know that pigmentation is not ancestry; it is simply correlated with it. Therefore, anyone can theoretically be any color while maintaining 99.99% of their genetic selves; only the alleles associated with pigmentation would be different.
2) Facial morphology - Off the top of my head, it seems that almost every, if not every region in the world has at least some individuals that fall into the "European" zone of facial morphology. This is particularly true for regions from W.Eurasia (MENA, India, and parts of east Africa/central Asia).
Conservative estimate, people would be able to become "close to white". Even if a complete transformation of all pigment alleles is not possible, we still know of only a handful of alleles that control a disproportionate amount, sometimes the vast majority, of pigmentation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1785344/
Something similar happens with skin tone, where two genes make the difference between the blackest black and a medium-skinned Arab.
>>8978130
Whites are becoming the minority, and if everyone actually was white, we'd still find reasons to hate each other.
A related graphic I have saved: What we see is that morphological distance is nowhere near as great, or even consistent, as genetic distance.
That is to say, ancestry is not immediately obvious by gauging the "average" facial features. And shared morphology (appearance) does not necessitate shared ancestry, even for ethnicity-wide averages.
Intra-European diversity is extremely high, with the distance between Icelanders and Greeks being nearly as high as that between Danes and Congolese!
>Pigmentation is not hereditary
And we all came from Africa too.
Why are men blamed for women not entering stem. Shouldn't we be blaming women?
>>8976481
Because they can't handle being responsible for their own lives
>>8976481
Hmmm, I would like to to blame them for more things...
>>8976481
Blaming men does nothing. Recognizing that social biases have existed and continue to exist that subtly push women away from wanting to do computer science, engineering, and physics and into life sciences or social sciences is important.
Similarly, there is a social stigma against men doing many performance arts, teaching, and child care.