From Smart Shrews To Dumb Humans

I like to call human evolution "DE-EVOLUTION" because our species is going in reverse — we are not only destroying our immediate habitat, but the entire Planet as well.

The misinformation I hear about evolution is immense. I hear both educated liberals and de-educated creationists say things that shows that few people understand some of the basic concepts of evolution.

Allow me to clarify a few things:

• We DID come from apes. I'm not sure why people are offended by that, just because gorillas like to throw their poop around at zoos.
• We DID NOT come from dinosaurs — we split off from them 256 million years ago.
• I like to think that our earliest ancestors are the shrews, which started showing up about 220 million years ago. But, in reality, evolution is a continuum. Our earliest ancestors are, in fact, the eukaryotes, complex cells that first appeared 2.1 billion years ago. As mentioned before, it was a living hell getting those first cells to evolve, but once that happened the rest of evolution was easy.
• It was at 10,000 years ago when humans, as we know them today, began to emerge. It was around this time when we invented agriculture, started getting light skin, and began adopting cats as pets.

Our brains started evolving 550 million years ago when we were little flatworms in the water. In fact, by then a lot of what we are today had already evolved. For instance, we already had bilateral symmetry and germ layers, which led to the development of tissues and organs. So, when someone calls you a "slimy little worm," don't be offended because that's what you once were.


Anti-Enviro Shrews

The reason that evolution is so important is that the better we can understand our evolutionary history, the better we can understand our current human behavior. We are products of our flatworm brains.

When I see my brothers and sisters in the environmental movement hit a brick wall, I have to ask, "Why have they hit that brick wall?" What is it in our evolution that makes us so willing to horde resources and become obsessed with our immediate comfort, at the expense of our environment and children's future? Something apparently has gone very wrong in the evolution of our species.

One of the best ways to learn more about the facts of evolution and the myths of creationism is to follow the YouTube channel of AronRa, who is mostly a self-taught evolutionist. He does a great job of putting complex biological information into plain English.

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