Zyskandar, evolution has STOPPED because you have finally arrived on the scene and there’s no need for any further evolution. You are the zenith (that means the highest point) of humankind. Your writing reveals that you are super intelligent so I am assuming you recognize sarcasm when you see it.

It is certainly apparent that your writing skills haven't evolved much since kindergarten. I'm sure that there are some literacy programs in your neighborhood that have evolved just for writers like you, though.

Welcome back, famed poet and sage. Stellaa and others will be pleased at your return. monkey fingered.

There are also medications for this sort of thing...

Funny how long it took me to notice. This mindless commie cunt will have to favorite you to keep up.

I have answers. But that way leads to civil disobedience.

You must have gone to a lot of years of schooling in Oklahoma or else watched a lot of Glenn Beck to get so articulate. And I really like your CAPITAL LETTERS because they're so BIG.

The world is good, you are back.

heh Skank - if youse were really smart youse would've used APEX - IGNORANT ASSHOLE!!!

ti the divine Stella - jes too make fun of the SHITFOOK 'the OBAMA' & his CULT of mental deficients!!! hope you've been well in KAHL-EE-FORN-YA[the governator's pronounciation] Interesting that these oh so intelligent sophisticated SHITHOLES couldn't answer the premise - i.e., has evolution stopped??? Probably all these SHITFOOKS are products of IVY LEAGUE educations as the BLACK PUNK FLY SWATTER-n-CHIEF CHICAGO COMMIE 'the OBAMA' bills himself!!! amazing at the ignoramuses on this site who consider themselves sentient beings [your company and several others excluded from this empirical observation dearest Stella] yoour still most humbled devoted servant even if you should've been a LEFTY LOON back in GREECE regards zaj

as to Noni, Myriad, Stephen + other DIPSHIT DOUCHESBAGS - several of my writings/musings have received international/national awards - be that as it may you SCUM don't deserve to have literary merit or intellect exhibited before the likes of such as youse. IN SHORT YOUSE ARE NOT DESERVING OF ANY THOUGHT OR WRITING THAN THAT OF YOUR MINDLESS MARXIST MORONS AND OTHERS OF YOUR PROGRSSIVELY MORE DISMAL ILK!!! Youse are indeed SHITFOOKS like your annointed one 'the OBAMA' - and would not recognize a new thought/idea/supposition in your dreadfully droll MARXIST mauve nation. How's that 'Hope&Change' working out for youse SHITHEADS???!!! Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha.

Who says that EVOLUTION HAS STOPPED? It HASN'T! It's STILL GOING ON! It's just a VERY SLOW PROCESS, so it's difficult to see IN HUMANS. The ABILITY TO DRINK MILK in adulthood evolved in some EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN POPULATIONS about 6000 YEARS AGO. And haven't you heard of VIRUS who develop RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTICS?

This is a joke, right?

to Norwonk - a) thanks for responding even incorrectly/incoherently b) the issue at hand as at present reside in Florida-the-USofSTOOPID FASCIST CORRUPT OBAMALAND for the short term that the AMERIKAN alligator has not changed for at least 50million years+ - how come??? no antibiotics/viruses outside factors there??? why do the family of great apes only have 97% of DNA matches that we find in the HOMINID family??? These largely 'lemurs' in EAST AFRICA or the older LEAKEY findings we equate to our ancestors are based on conjecture - not pure scientific proof. Whether those who drink milk are more 'evolved' would mean that the RETARDS in VERMONT [where cows still out number peeple] should be geniuses yet the've suckled SENATURD BERNIE'socialist-shithead-thief'SAUNDERS + HOWIE'the-short' but that can be blamed on being transports from NewYork and not indigenous to VERMONT!!! The 30 or so books/journals i've read/perused on this subject indicate that EVOLUTION has indeed sufficiently SLOWED or STOPPED at the present point - that another theory must be forthcoming to explain this phenomenae/phaenominolgia as WITTGENSTEIN would have said.

See - all you need for some eyeballs is a really catchy title. Ook!

This is fucking brilliant. You sir, are an artist.

Give this man an NEA grant immediately!

to Jeanette + Mj - sorry have not saved my urine so can not place art of SHITFOOK 'the OBAMA' in its proper repository!!! thanks for responses regards zaj

This is Hilarious! Too bad it's probably not a joke.

At somebody's suggestion, I googled you, and found that (as the somebody said) you write poetry ... which (tho I don't understand poetry for the most part) seems more coherent than this blog entry. You also have a lovely orchid for your Facebook pic.

So I am baffled - is this blog some kind of *performance art* or something? (Maybe MJwycha wasn't just making a funny comment...?)

If not, I stand by my comment that some meds (lithium?) would probably be helpful...

Zyskandar, forget evolution, how are the grandchildren?

This is a put on, right?

The problem is that now days, it's extremely difficult to tell when something's a parody because real know-nothing extremists have become so outlandish.

Exhibit A being Glenn Beck. Exhibit B being Sarah Palin.

Is this kinda like a Jocelyn Testes Shitfook?

to M- thanks fur ur comments - valium at 400 usually takes the 'edge off' - as far as ART if you go to [think it is?] thehypertexts.com or moonstone cafe.com [more artwork there] there is some of my artwork you may enjoy or not - if youse like florals regards zaj

As the movie line goes: "You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means."

I hope you're kidding, 'cause if you're not, you need to read more (or better) books...

Your question can't be answered because its entire premise is wrong. The absence of evolution in humans can't be explained because there is no absence of evolution. The fact that you don't see it is neither here nor there. All that proves, is that you don't know what evolution is.

So read, and you shall be enlightened:

"Biological (or organic) evolution is change in the properties of populations of organisms or groups of such populations, over the course of generations. The development, or ontogeny, of an individual organism is not considered evolution: individual organisms do not evolve. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are ‘heritable' via the genetic material from one generation to the next. Biological evolution may be slight or substantial; it embraces everything from slight changes in the proportions of different forms of a gene within a population, such as the alleles that determine the different human blood types, to the alterations that led from the earliest organisms to dinosaurs, bees, snapdragons, and humans."

Douglas J. Futuyma (1998) Evolutionary Biology 3rd ed., Sinauer Associates Inc. Sunderland MA p.4

Or, to reduce it to one sentence:

"In fact, evolution can be precisely defined as any change in the frequency of alleles within a gene pool from one generation to the next."

Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes, Biology, 5th ed. 1989 Worth Publishers, p.974

Tell me that this no longer happens in humans. Go on. I dare you.

to Mtriad - forgot that ORCHIDACEA on FACEBOOK...it is one of my own from the genus/family CATTELYEA grown here in Orlando. it is truly spectacular when it blossoms rehards zaj

Zyskander! DUDE! Where have you been? I've missed the Commie Cunts. Missed them!

to Norwank - the premise is indeed correct. EVOLUTION is not NOT your half-witted pasted assumptions from largely tertiary minds. in humans - even the SHITFOOK DEMBHOLES/MARXISTS here at Salon there is no indication of adaption because not that it is incrementally too slow and laborious - there has been 0 seero nada nunca change in the human condition for approximately 6500 years!!! well that is aside from most of you hiding or disguisin those annoying 6th digits on feet and hands for yousde DEMBHOLES/PROGRESSIVES!!! To come back to actuality/reality always tres difficiles for DEMBHOLES - go ahead list your figures/snippets of knowledge for the AMERIKAN ALLIGATOR???!!! unchanged for 50million + years!!! why has it not evolved??? where are your quotes from those tertiary ASSHOLES to support youse STOOPIDITY??? there aren't any r there??? that's OK jes make somethin up - the TROO MORONS on this site will believe it because this is Salon where SHITHEADS come to polish one a nother's knobs and revel in their own fecundity!!!

"to Norwank"

Yay! I was wondering who would be the first OS'er to use that one!

Congratulations, Sir! Give yourself a cigar.

Oh, and by the way: Alligators living today are different from the animals we call alligators that lived 50 million years ago. We just haven't decided to call them something else than alligators (but we could, if it would make you happy). They may look very similar, but I doubt a 50 million year old alligator could mate with any living species. Their genes were different. Just like your genes are different from your ancestors who lived 1,000,000 or 100,000 or 10,000 or 1000 years ago. In fact, you probably have about 100 mutations which your parents didn't have. Some of them will be passed on to your children, who in turn will add about 100 new mutations to the mix. And that, my friend, is what we call evolution.

But don't expect it to change OS any time soon.

ObAmAy is OBAgay. is gottem testickles likes coCONuTS...youse see Disem Izzam E-vo-LutIon...only Gay, gassy SamBo type Blac-darkie..cOon con Coon job man teach Kidds bout Involuntary evolutions in Bedrooms...Like Denzel-diesel Vinn-wash-wash behind yer ears-Ington, Fook White libbie chicks..and make dis 'Volution..Is voluntary to fook, Iz right?

I want a commemorative plate about reveling in fecundity.

Seriously, Zyskandar, you have been missed.

Reveling in fecundity sounds like fun! If I knew we were doing that I would have brought some lube.

Crocodiles did too evalve!

An article in Discover magazine a few months back made the case that evolution has not stopped at all. In fact, its pace is accelerating. Changes in the environment have a profound effect on which genes are expressed or dormant, and our environment is changing so fast I get whiplash trying to keep up. Look into epigenetics if you're interested in finding out more.

Why would evolution stop? That makes no sense.

Huh?

to the Norwanker + other USEFUL IDJITS - while youse revel in ur puereile polemicks and congratulates SHITYFOOKS such as 'the OBAMA' and his cultists on managing to agree with 'chimps' who have kearnedhow to 'google' - HAVE U EVER HAD AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT/IDEA THAT WASN'T FED TO U LIKE FRUM THE FEMALE INTELLIGENTSIA ON THE 'VIEW'??? Youse guys r so ez it is laughable. Now go play with George Soros' pet monkey on the leash of the monied/organ-grinder-convicted/faudster and all extol his 'immenseness'/annointedness!!! For youse sees to be honoured among USEFUL IDJIT chimps ain't such an honorific!!! what's that you have to keep 'googling' non-sequiturs sos that the other chimps will agree and honor ur abilities. WOW UR EVOLVED.

youse all get medals like the BLACK PUNK CHICAGO COMMIE FLY-SWATTER-n-CHIEF 'the OBAMA's 'trying' in sports - jes not the millions upon millions to be made in the slum projects deal to turn CHICAGO rat-holes into OLYMPIC VILLAGE sweets - hold it neither do those DALEY DEMBHOLE -DOUCJESBAGS - heh Norwanker+other USELESS IDJITS youse do have 'tings' in common - so stick that cigar up your butthole be like REPREHENSIBLE DEMBHOLE PAT KENNEDY he likes things up his ass too!!! and dear leslie b - an article frum whatever duz not 'prove' or disprove anything - as far as EVOLUTION stopping - i exhibit one ALAN GRAYSON the apotheosis of all thought in REPREHENSIBLE NANCY'sphincter-of-the-House-of-Fools'PELOSI menagerie - proof that EVOLUTION has ceased at least in FLORIDA and environs. fur all u FOOKWADS ise an unenrolled voter in FLORIDA - which means i equally despise DEMBHOLES like most of u and retard REPUBLICANTS - but hold in especiale awe and wonder SHITFOOKS as 'the OBAMA' has proven himself to be.