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What about the small number of people that can dive deeper than most humans and hold their breath longer because of diving for generations for their livelihoods?
I think you should make the content even shorter so we could enjoy ads more. Sarcasm aside, I understand the need for monetisation and support it. But an 8 minute video that includes 3 minutes of ads? That's quite a stretch. Literally.
Why are we expecting some immense sudden change when everything we know about evolution teaches is its a slow and barely noticable process unless you have the benefit of tens of thousands of years to observe it?
Exactly! what’s stopping human evolution? nothing. we are experiencing evolutionary pressures and don’t even realize it. evolution is certainly occuring, extroadinarily slowly given our perception
@itzhexen0 no we probably wont need to fly any time soon. heres a more realistic example of a potential evolutionary pressure: withstanding increasing rates of anxiety and depression as dopamine demand increases in the brain, caused by social media and increased “instant gratification” in modern society in general. for people who cant prosper due to an increase in mental health issues, caused by an evolutionary pressure (internet, food convenience, etc) their genes will not be passed on (social anxiety, decreased likelihood to leave the house, etc). this is just a hypothetical example, which may be false. but nevertheless, you can see not every evolutionary change needs to be as extreme as growing wings or growing bulletproof skin
@itzhexen0 I believe you should start with an evolutionary pressure, something we are exposed to that past humans weren't. Here's an example: increased basal dopamine requirements due to the internet, food convenience, and a generalized increased in "instant gratification". What if these things are the cause behind increased global anxiety, and depression? In this case, wouldn't those better able to deal with increased anxiety and depression prosper, compared to those who don't? Suddenly humans that can withstand this change can pass on their genes more effectively than those who can't, leading to an evolutionary change over time. Just food for thought, totally hypothetical scenario but you get the idea
It becomes mind boggling to me when I just relax and take a moment to appreciate all these amazing things the 21st Century has brought to humanity, suddenly, the things I took for granted became a marvel. Then when looking at the bigger picture, this thought ringing in my head, 'nothing in this reality should be taken for granted'. The fact that all this exists is a marvel. And at that point, I feel pretty bad about how humanity's dominace on the planet is doing more harm than good, just because the biggest collective of person, just like my anecdotal experience, takes everything we see, use or interact for granted
Absolutely, still going. However, intellect and ambition may be less present in future generations because the poorest performers in our society and economy have the most genetic success. That effect is certainly the most significant in today’s environment. It might be slow because the population is very large. However, it might be faster than expected because the difference is between having zero children to having 4 children has an exponential effect over several generations.
@@rustynails68 You might be right there... the dumbing down of humanity though is much more nefariously administered. There's a reason why they don't send their kids to the same schools or get private tutors.Nations like Finland will likely lead the way coz they don't allow the "elites" to partition themselves off. Most of the issues you're seeing driving humanity down is driven by the greed of power & money and it's the current privileged 1% thats been driving this fall. How this will drive our evolution sure will be "interesting".
Maybe @themusicgaragetmg2330 and @rustynails68 should have watched the video before making their comment. Then you know what his point is. Here's the TL;DR: Human biology and culture are not evolving at the same pace.
@@rustynails68Quite ambitious to have 4 children in a dying world, wouldn't you say. You shouldn't focus on "intellect". Part of nature, nurture and part because we either fix it with technology and start collectively taking care of our neighbors and finite planet again or we don't and nature fixes it herself. "Easy way or hard way" to speak with an article from Kurzweil on 'Accelerating Intelligence'.
The human community should commemorate an international day in honor and glorification of the struggle of the first ancestors and their struggle for survival and defiance of difficulties, undoubtedly human development and advancement did not happen in vain, but came from the midst of a moment of great suffering witnessed, so the return and the real spiritual and emotional connection with the ancestors will create our visions of a better reality of what is around us and heading towards the coming without a doubt .
@suzannecarter445 virology is a lie, because it has not been established via the scientific method. If viruses were as they claim, they could stop 'vaccinating' after a couple of years of no cases, because the viruses would literally be extinct. They tell us they need a host and they replicate via the host. Once that is stopped, the virus would be permanently gone. Unless of course, the associates disease is caused by something else entirely.
Evolution is not linear. It progresses in fits and starts depending on conditions. The fact that we are more generalized as humans now than before is in itself evolution.
How tall a person is depend on the genes as well on food availability. Nowadays food is usually not a problem in developed countries, so people are, of course, taller. It doesn't mean there's an evolutionary pressure
99% obsolete! Especially how we concurred the 'infectious' diseases and how he praised the industrial agriculture. Brainwashed at the University, no doubt.
I’d like to propose an alternative theory of evolution. It’s not isolation which causes evolution its external pressures put upon a species to adapt or die. The reason we’re not evolving is because we’ve become disconnected from the external pressures the more we create a life of these, the less pressure we have on ourselves at every level the more we’re prone to step outside the evolutionary process, just wondering if anybody has any response to that
That's not an alternate theory of evolution, that IS the theory of evolution. We will evolve differently based on our external pressures and due to our relatively comfy lives we will probably move toward increased brainpower as opposed to improving heating and digestive mechanisms, etc
Do humans in fact exercise control over nature? We know very little about the deep seas, the eccentric animal species that thrive there having adapted to darkness, low oxygen and how exactly that particular ecosystem works. We now know that the Stonehenge's 6 tonne altar stone originated from as far as north-east Scotland. That's some serious weight lifting, use of applied sciences (physics),engineering skills right there at work 5,000 years ago. Were our human ancestors more superior back then?The growing list of zoonotic diseases compounded by deforestation, climate change, habitat loss, and consumption of wild meat suggest otherwise.
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
... I'd love to argue these points. Though I agree with most of them, I don't believe all of them are shown with the correct biological perspective. Having an eco minded agricultural approach on life, and a neurological condition that kept me bouncing perspectives and plenty of time to brush up on lectures. The trends I found were horrifying. Especial when I made the switch from animal husbandry to human development, psych, sociology, politics, and the medical trifecta. Yes, death is hard, but I believe we create more death (and prolonged suffering) with many of our solutions. We can produce more food as farmers, but it's not as safe or nutritionally sustainable. In goats, the boer breed is managed for show animals while the kiko breed is selected to be germ and predator resistant with little interaction. Can you guess which one has more health problems and maternal issues? There are similar observations that can be made observing different forms of poultry husbandry against human lifestyles, pertaining to biosecurity and conflict. Nature operates on a very 'sacrifice the individual for the strength of the species' system. Trying to skirt that with medical advancement has been at the detriment of most of our world, for the profit of few. Hands on homesteading and parenting are things we are in dire need of upping or percentage of the workforce in. Remember, most of our science was adopted from misguided, nazi, motives. We wouldn't have modern medicine if the holocaust had never happened. Those motives are still very present, profit driven, and political today. Inadvertently, they have made us weaker as a whole. Most agricultural laborers in 1st world countries are born in 3rd world countries because the western world has started to evolve away from our ability to feed ourselves. This is demonstratable through the theory of genetic memory and observing different breeds of the same species, artificially selected for different purposes. Biodiversity can't exist in a lab, there for it's science cannot succeed in a biodiversity dependent nature. I fear our species has hit a critical mass of life support.
Not a difficult question really. We no longer compete for food or mating rights. The traits that make humans more likely to survive to pass along genetic material are few, and are not physical traits mostly, and the few physical traits that do are mostly overridden by medical intervention now. With all due respect to the speaker, I'd call this a "medium think". It's well covered territory, and most intelligent college students get there on their own when they first learn how evolution actually works.
@@jkenwell a) evolution has nothing to do with improvement. It is ONLY about what adaptations are likely to increase odds of procreation. If an adaptation is no more likely to be passed to the next generation, then it is highly unlikely to spread enough to become a dominant trait in a given population b) the term "pressures" is so broad as to be meaningless in your comment. Predation? Mating competition? Food scarcity? There's still a LOT of food scarcity for humans as a species. We haven't removed that one. Disease? Still a thing, and access to healthcare that prevents or treats disease is FAR from universal. And the list does go on, but we've largely stabilized how those pressures impact the likelihood of passing on your genetic material. But... I guess thank you for agreeing with me? That is what you were doing right?
@@backpacker3421 any successful adaptation is effectively an improvement. And pharmaceuticals are not healthcare. The very word pharmacy at the greek root means poison.
@@jkenwell medication isn't healthcare. Sure. No, many adaptations are not inherently improvements. They are adaptations, and the fossil record is full of examples of adaptations that did promulgate but ultimately made a species unable to compete as pressures changed. Your understanding of this is clearly limited. Let me guess, undergrad class.... maybe. More like high school I'd guess. Good luck out there.
I'm unqualified to argue it properly, but I'm pretty sure our biological evolution is quite as continuous and rapid/slow as it has always been. Adaptive organisms don't stop adapting in a system that continues to change.
Evolution always occurs but he’s talking about evolution via natural selection. Which when you can control most natural events like we do becomes less of a factor but sexual selection is just as impactful if not more so than natural selection (just ask the peacock or any antlered animal, or bird of paradise or etc…)
Dna editing will be a thing in the future and it will be important to our species keep evolving or even evolve more quickly. I don't see any other way. Eugenia is very dangerous but will be a thing in the future.
Crocodilians are the perfect water ambush predators. They haven’t changed much in 80 million years. Humans are the perfect technology users. Everything from our hairlessness, big brains, weak muscles not only facilitates technology, we absolutely need it to exist. We’re so good at this role we won’t evolve much for 80 million years either.
It's amazing how we've evolved so much, yet our bodies haven't changed at all. Producing way more food than a century ago shows how far we've come, but it also makes you wonder-are our bodies ready to keep up with all this progress?
Cavities and cancer are examples of modern changes that happened after agriculture. Our bodies ARE keeping up, just not in a good way. Evolution is always equated as a positive thing, because the strong survive. However, mutations are almost always bad.
We started going down after agriculture. Our brain and size massively grew when we we're apex predators, not gatherers. We are designed to be apex carnivores. Simple as that. We have massive brains and weak digestive systems to compensate. We process plant toxins and convert plant material to animal materials very poorly because that requires a lot of energy and specialized organs. We simply forgot how to eat ancestrally and our bodies are falling apart as a result. Support your local farmer before the powers that be steal our food from us to "save the planet". Plant foods is slave food. We are lions, not sheep.
The fact that living cells are designed at all cost to maintain base code. They do not operate on a random mutation Paradigm. Hello! In this day and age we know cells literally function the exact opposite of how evolutionary theory mandates.
Nobody mentions the biggest biological constraint on the evolution of the brain. The head of the child has to fit the female birth canal at childbirth. If the head was to big, historically, that would kill both mother and child. Today, that problem can be mitigated by cesarean birth but it has been a long term limiter in brain size in human developement.
I love science, I do science but evolution doesn't make sense. and just 1 question I always ask is, why is it that since history has been recorded, which species has evolved as science and Darwin alluded? none I know of. and this is not a matter of beliefs, a matter of where is the change when now people can record ... so many questions I usually pose to my colleagues and such ... but other elements under " evolution " umbrella make sense like speciation, natural selection, mutation etc make sense. Also, it's just so convenient that our evolution is slow ... look at animals themselves, their environment hasn't changed much if any but still no evolution ...
Evolution is REALLY slow for slow breeding species. You can find antibiotic resistant bacteria evolving. And peppered moths changing color. Evolution is more obvious on human timescales for these smaller and faster breeding species. If you want to see large changes evolving, you need to look across large amounts of time.
This video is beyond stupid. It is taking an elementary school approach to the topic. Let me save you some time: Evolution can be defined as "The change in gene frequencies within a population over time." Some genes are so rare, that they are very unlikely to be passed on. Some genes are so common, it is possible that mutations will arrive and endure because there are billions of copies of those genes present in the population. And this, over time, means that there will be a change in the frequencies of genes. To conflate Evolution to mean Speciation is wrong. Open up the video making the distinction between Speciation and Evolution or just take the video down. Yes, Speciation occurs through Evolution. But for the love of whatever skydaddy you worship, don't mix the two up. Speciation is what happens when you have certain conditions. Evolution is something which is an unavoidable consequence within all populations. If you can't clarify that distinction early in the video, then maybe you shouldn't be addressing the topic at all.
I find it interesting that none of the "downsides" are mentioned. For example, iatrogenesis is the third leading cause of death. Agriculture poisons us by the massive application of toxic chemicals, some of which gave us 'polio' (neurotoxins like DDT) in the past. Agriculture establishes unnatural ecologies by promoting monocultures for as far as the eye can see, which nature never produces. It leads to lower quality of food, soil depletion, nutrient depletion. None of the downsides of all this 'progress' are mentioned. Why? Is it really advantageous to have technologies that allow humanity to populate the planet far beyond the normal carrying capacity of Earth for our species, which in turn causes the expansion of agriculture, habitat loss for species needed to keep a balance, change in weather patterns, and so on? What happens when the chemicals and tools of manipulation run out? Will humanity collapse back to below a billion where it was before the chemical revolution allowed humanity to play god? Will it be even worse since the ecological health of the Earth will have been negatively impacted for not only decades but centuries? Is it a good thing that human population is able to expand to the degree that humans need to cut down the rainforest to feed everyone? How far does this madness go? It would have been one thing to keep population steady and increase the standard of living of the humans alive, but that isn't happening. We're a train wreck waiting to happen.
@MusingsFromTheJohn00 it is actually leading us to extinction or near extinction, because this so-called leap is destroying the very ecosphere humans and all life depend on [and no, I am not referring to 'climate change', but the various toxins and specie destruction that is happening as a result of this madness], imo.
I can see evolution in ethnicity. When I look at old family pictures of my grandparents family, they look different from me and my family. They look more “ethnic” and we looked a bit more “American”. What I mean is that their features are more accentuated than mine.
De-evolution is far more likely. In the public eye, tptb are working on accelerating humanity's evolution. However, mutation is almost always a negative result and not a positive one. Behind closed doors, they've resolved to pollute and mutate humanity in a bid to make us less capable of opposing their rule, while taking advantage of any (exorbitantly and prohibitively priced) benefits that may be discovered along the way.
I would add that modern medicine practises would prevent any natural evolution. I would think that if a child was born with a sudden genetic evolutionary change doctors would treat it as they have done with hermaphrodites where surgery was/is performed to align the child with one sex, normally female. There is a genetic link between predominantly female Curvature of the Spine & predominantly male Down Syndrome where a village that was unusually high rates of female Curvature of the Spine has unusually low rates of Down Syndrome children. Female Curvature of the Spine is a simple operation to fix so would it be wise to encourage this to prevent Down Syndrome or would the visible one be cured encouraging the hidden?
Allowing and realising that algorithms rule the info we get. Becoming tribal and within mass thinking...it only allows one to lose identity, the self and one's integrity.
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
The rapid pace of cultural evolution contrasts with the slower pace of biological evolution because cultural changes spread quickly through learning and technology, while biological evolution requires genetic changes over many generations. Modern medicine has reduced the impact of natural selection, slowing biological change. Performance records improve due to advancements in training, nutrition, and technology, not because of biological evolution. Essentially, while our culture and technology advance rapidly, our biology evolves much more slowly.
Running on scientifically engineered clothing tracks, shoes, clothing, foods from all around the world, etc. watch old school boxing and modern boxing and find that people are not necessarily better than their ancestors, we just made things easier for us.
So after watching the video i have to say humans are not likely to change much from biological stand point. Why? Well first off we have a pretty good understanding of genetics and DNA, if something started changing we would more then likely look at it as a negative and start to work against that altering gene, not allowing our bodies to naturally adapt and evolve around it. Second people choose their mate by look much more then a lot of other species, so if we see someone with worts that looked like tree bark we are less likely to want to have intimacy with them, which would lead to spreading those genes more which could lead to different looking humans down the line. in short we are so advanced in the way we procreate and deal with diseases that where not likely to evolve without some major global catastrophe.
I am still going to listen for a little longer, but this seems like an ad for the agrichemical and agripharmaceutical complex. No mention of any downsides. No critical thinking. Operating on assumptions or deceptions?
This comment is low key racism, which I actually wouldn’t push back on if it was historical. Two thousand years ago all Anglo and Germanic tribes were considered barbarians, chiefly by the Romans. They eventually adapted Roman farming methods, architecture and technology, and built metropolises where there were none before. If they’d actually been inferior, as all superficial evidence would’ve suggested, that adaptation would’ve been impossible. So it goes for other populations and regions on our planet.
Human physiology isn't changing?...some places basics are maintained...other places we see humans who would not be able to live due to physical condition if they are exposed to outdoor environments.
Completely fails to address the disaster inherent in 2% of the population (immigrants and poor hippies and mega conglomerates) producing the food that 100% eats. It's one of those tipping points.
3:00 humans left Africa 100,000 plus years ago. This fella doesnt seem to realise that there has been isolation of our different subspecies until just yesterday, our brains aren't all the same ...
I figure the next evolutionary step will be a major one, and will be one of the following. AGI allows exponential levels of advancement at rates barely dreamt of, changing our world in profound ways, and completely changing what it means to be human? We either merge with, or are forced to subsume to, our technology. The alternative is the AGI advances as human 2.0, and human 1.0 (us) either are killed off, die out, or maybe the Porno for Pyros song, Pets, becomes future humanities theme song.
I've observed *notable differences* in human anatomy over the past fifty years. Teenage girls' anatomy matches that of mature women and their level of overall "attractiveness" has increased dramatically. This is most likely due to better nutrition, focus on exercise, and advanced health supplements. Likewise, boys are developing into men at a faster rate with the advent of better training and performance enhancing drugs. ... If these differences are observable over a mere 50 years, then what will humans look like in 500 years?
I was just about to unsubscribe when he started in about the possibility of more efficient agriculture lol thank goodness it ended by raising an eyebrow at the distribution of the agriculture produced. There is an obvious pyramid scheme in agricultural production/distribution that has diluted the nutritional value of and wastes over 30% of production through the profitability Big Oil receives with the entirely unnecessary distribution methods🤔
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
I have a theory (not sure if this is already a “thing”) but we will eventually lose our bone mass due to how we are living our lives and the weight we are carrying.
Nah. You do not understand evolution at all if you think it requires separation geographically. You are forgetting temporal evolution altogether. Evolution will happen if we are around another million or so years, separated from each other or not. Genomes of the past will not match genomes of the future and it is as simple as that. To say "oh Evolution can't happen because..." is nonsense. You are picking some extremely divisive examples "We all look differently because..." and immediately looking at the entire continent of Africa. And who the hell brings somebody that can't speak higher than a High School Dropout onto a channel called "Big Think." FFS at least grow a pair and try to find somebody that knows about the field of Biology and don't pick up just "Joe Shmo" on the street who is parroting not textbooks, but popular works written by political pundits and trying to pass it off as science. The academic rigor here is appalling.
@MusingsFromTheJohn00 yes, I do know. They are destroying humanity. What they call the 'a huge class of useless eaters' now (Noah Yuval Harari, World Economic Forum). You're not going anywhere but 6 feet under with that 'science' of theirs. The future belongs to the oligarchs of the world and the few humans they want to keep around.
Jesus Christ told us what was at the root of disease and the rest of our culture."Ask and you shall receive." George Harrison echoed it. "It's all in the mind, ya know"
I understand that many people support the theory of evolution, but I personally have reservations about it. I believe there are valid concerns and questions about the evidence and interpretations surrounding it. I believe that God created humans, and this perspective is an important part of my faith. I understand that there are different views on this topic, including the scientific theory of evolution. It's important to remember that scientific theories, like evolution, aim to explain natural processes and are not necessarily intended to disprove religious beliefs. I believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans on Earth, as described in my religious tradition.
When will people stop pretending that all population groups have the exact same distribution of cognitive qualities when we know that brains are the result of evolution and there has been significant time in different environments with different selection pressures and challenges? We know this will have made a difference and it helps to explain patterns of outcomes which we see today, but instead of taking ownership and agency they blame others for the outcome distribution.
Because many, many, many, many studies show that “cognitive qualities” or what I’ll call “measurable intelligence” is a factor of sociocultural upbringing FAR more than a factor of genetics.
I keep asking... "Does anyone see any evidence of evolution in modern humans?" If you study homo sapiens, it's obvious we're due for an evolutionary change. Nothing is evident.
Interesting choice of words, ‘lovingly and fearfully made.’ If that’s the case, then it seems even the divine has a flair for dramatic irony. If we’re made by a perfect being, wouldn’t you expect a little less fear and a bit more flawless design? Maybe the ‘loving’ part got lost in translation while the ‘fearful’ aspect was given top billing.
@@windows10acc Oh, I see we’re invoking ancient scriptural rhetoric now. If we're talking about deception, perhaps we should ask how a 'generous' deity ended up with a playbook that includes endless confusion and contradictory messages. Seems like the real deception is thinking an old text holds all the answers for a modern world that’s evolved beyond such simplistic explanations.
@@UncleBuZWhilst I disagree with OP’s comment (no, I’m not made directly by God. He literally gave us the ability to procreate, so no, I’m not made directly by Him, and none of us are and it’s frankly delusional to think that we were when it was our parents who used their own given power who had sex), their point on “fearfully” is not to be understood in the common usage of the word today. “Fearful” means “reverential” in a religious context pertaining to God. Fear of God is not to be confused with being afraid of Him. It’s illogical to be afraid of a God of love, as you pointed out. Like with many other words and the complex ways that language evolves over the years, definitions of “fear” have also changed. A good example is the word “soul,” actually. When you consider encyclopaedic and other scholarly references, you’ll see the old meaning of “soul” as used in the scriptural texts *always* related to a living human or animal (unless the term “dead soul” was used, showing that the soul is not immortal). It wasn’t until the late church adopted Platonic philosophical traditions that the meaning of “soul” went from a living being to an immortal spirit. That’s an example of how language evolves and intended meanings get lost through corruption over time. I realise that was a lot, but I hope my point made sense at least.
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What about the small number of people that can dive deeper than most humans and hold their breath longer because of diving for generations for their livelihoods?
I think you should make the content even shorter so we could enjoy ads more.
Sarcasm aside, I understand the need for monetisation and support it. But an 8 minute video that includes 3 minutes of ads? That's quite a stretch. Literally.
Why are we expecting some immense sudden change when everything we know about evolution teaches is its a slow and barely noticable process unless you have the benefit of tens of thousands of years to observe it?
Exactly! what’s stopping human evolution? nothing. we are experiencing evolutionary pressures and don’t even realize it. evolution is certainly occuring, extroadinarily slowly given our perception
@itzhexen0I dont understand the point you’re making. your statement does not establish your perspective clearly
@itzhexen0 It certainly will not take a couple of years though
@itzhexen0 no we probably wont need to fly any time soon. heres a more realistic example of a potential evolutionary pressure: withstanding increasing rates of anxiety and depression as dopamine demand increases in the brain, caused by social media and increased “instant gratification” in modern society in general. for people who cant prosper due to an increase in mental health issues, caused by an evolutionary pressure (internet, food convenience, etc) their genes will not be passed on (social anxiety, decreased likelihood to leave the house, etc). this is just a hypothetical example, which may be false. but nevertheless, you can see not every evolutionary change needs to be as extreme as growing wings or growing bulletproof skin
@itzhexen0 I believe you should start with an evolutionary pressure, something we are exposed to that past humans weren't. Here's an example: increased basal dopamine requirements due to the internet, food convenience, and a generalized increased in "instant gratification". What if these things are the cause behind increased global anxiety, and depression? In this case, wouldn't those better able to deal with increased anxiety and depression prosper, compared to those who don't? Suddenly humans that can withstand this change can pass on their genes more effectively than those who can't, leading to an evolutionary change over time. Just food for thought, totally hypothetical scenario but you get the idea
I think ours brains are evolving. We have tools/robots to help with labor so there’s no need to physically change.
It becomes mind boggling to me when I just relax and take a moment to appreciate all these amazing things the 21st Century has brought to humanity, suddenly, the things I took for granted became a marvel. Then when looking at the bigger picture, this thought ringing in my head, 'nothing in this reality should be taken for granted'. The fact that all this exists is a marvel. And at that point, I feel pretty bad about how humanity's dominace on the planet is doing more harm than good, just because the biggest collective of person, just like my anecdotal experience, takes everything we see, use or interact for granted
@bulolo_wilber what if (the pupose of) the things you marvel at are not what they appear to be?
then what is the truth
Human evolution has stopped!?!? no... it's still going on.
Absolutely, still going. However, intellect and ambition may be less present in future generations because the poorest performers in our society and economy have the most genetic success. That effect is certainly the most significant in today’s environment. It might be slow because the population is very large. However, it might be faster than expected because the difference is between having zero children to having 4 children has an exponential effect over several generations.
@@rustynails68 You might be right there... the dumbing down of humanity though is much more nefariously administered. There's a reason why they don't send their kids to the same schools or get private tutors.Nations like Finland will likely lead the way coz they don't allow the "elites" to partition themselves off. Most of the issues you're seeing driving humanity down is driven by the greed of power & money and it's the current privileged 1% thats been driving this fall. How this will drive our evolution sure will be "interesting".
Maybe @themusicgaragetmg2330 and @rustynails68 should have watched the video before making their comment. Then you know what his point is.
Here's the TL;DR: Human biology and culture are not evolving at the same pace.
In reverse. Humanity is in retrograde.
@@rustynails68Quite ambitious to have 4 children in a dying world, wouldn't you say. You shouldn't focus on "intellect". Part of nature, nurture and part because we either fix it with technology and start collectively taking care of our neighbors and finite planet again or we don't and nature fixes it herself. "Easy way or hard way" to speak with an article from Kurzweil on 'Accelerating Intelligence'.
The human community should commemorate an international day in honor and glorification of the struggle of the first ancestors and their struggle for survival and defiance of difficulties, undoubtedly human development and advancement did not happen in vain, but came from the midst of a moment of great suffering witnessed, so the return and the real spiritual and emotional connection with the ancestors will create our visions of a better reality of what is around us and heading towards the coming without a doubt .
I could listen to this dude all day. Likeable, not pretentious, knowledgeable. Well done.
...and usually wrong.
Psychological evolution is taking place.
This was another good one. I just read "Smallpox, the Death of a Disease". Thank you!
@suzannecarter445 virology is a lie, because it has not been established via the scientific method. If viruses were as they claim, they could stop 'vaccinating' after a couple of years of no cases, because the viruses would literally be extinct. They tell us they need a host and they replicate via the host. Once that is stopped, the virus would be permanently gone. Unless of course, the associates disease is caused by something else entirely.
This is a bewildering experience for me, and I'm not a time traveler.
i like the ground news ad . hope its get more wide range of local ( like india) media comparison
Evolution is not linear. It progresses in fits and starts depending on conditions. The fact that we are more generalized as humans now than before is in itself evolution.
Nope. Didn't find "Big Think" in this video. It was basically an ad for the chemical industry.
I thought we were taller now?
I'm not
How tall a person is depend on the genes as well on food availability. Nowadays food is usually not a problem in developed countries, so people are, of course, taller. It doesn't mean there's an evolutionary pressure
Is it that when the surrounding is not changed that much, we significantly are, and the other way around? IDK.
5 minutes video, 3 minutes of crap
99% obsolete! Especially how we concurred the 'infectious' diseases and how he praised the industrial agriculture. Brainwashed at the University, no doubt.
I’d like to propose an alternative theory of evolution. It’s not isolation which causes evolution its external pressures put upon a species to adapt or die. The reason we’re not evolving is because we’ve become disconnected from the external pressures the more we create a life of these, the less pressure we have on ourselves at every level the more we’re prone to step outside the evolutionary process, just wondering if anybody has any response to that
That's not an alternate theory of evolution, that IS the theory of evolution.
We will evolve differently based on our external pressures and due to our relatively comfy lives we will probably move toward increased brainpower as opposed to improving heating and digestive mechanisms, etc
"Biology is not evolving as fast as culture [is evolving]" is the essential statement of our modern times if there were ever was one.
Would we even still be considered "Human" ?
Do humans in fact exercise control over nature? We know very little about the deep seas, the eccentric animal species that thrive there having adapted to darkness, low oxygen and how exactly that particular ecosystem works. We now know that the Stonehenge's 6 tonne altar stone originated from as far as north-east Scotland. That's some serious weight lifting, use of applied sciences (physics),engineering skills right there at work 5,000 years ago. Were our human ancestors more superior back then?The growing list of zoonotic diseases compounded by deforestation, climate change, habitat loss, and consumption of wild meat suggest otherwise.
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
... I'd love to argue these points. Though I agree with most of them, I don't believe all of them are shown with the correct biological perspective. Having an eco minded agricultural approach on life, and a neurological condition that kept me bouncing perspectives and plenty of time to brush up on lectures. The trends I found were horrifying. Especial when I made the switch from animal husbandry to human development, psych, sociology, politics, and the medical trifecta. Yes, death is hard, but I believe we create more death (and prolonged suffering) with many of our solutions. We can produce more food as farmers, but it's not as safe or nutritionally sustainable. In goats, the boer breed is managed for show animals while the kiko breed is selected to be germ and predator resistant with little interaction. Can you guess which one has more health problems and maternal issues? There are similar observations that can be made observing different forms of poultry husbandry against human lifestyles, pertaining to biosecurity and conflict. Nature operates on a very 'sacrifice the individual for the strength of the species' system. Trying to skirt that with medical advancement has been at the detriment of most of our world, for the profit of few. Hands on homesteading and parenting are things we are in dire need of upping or percentage of the workforce in. Remember, most of our science was adopted from misguided, nazi, motives. We wouldn't have modern medicine if the holocaust had never happened. Those motives are still very present, profit driven, and political today. Inadvertently, they have made us weaker as a whole. Most agricultural laborers in 1st world countries are born in 3rd world countries because the western world has started to evolve away from our ability to feed ourselves. This is demonstratable through the theory of genetic memory and observing different breeds of the same species, artificially selected for different purposes. Biodiversity can't exist in a lab, there for it's science cannot succeed in a biodiversity dependent nature. I fear our species has hit a critical mass of life support.
Not a difficult question really. We no longer compete for food or mating rights. The traits that make humans more likely to survive to pass along genetic material are few, and are not physical traits mostly, and the few physical traits that do are mostly overridden by medical intervention now.
With all due respect to the speaker, I'd call this a "medium think". It's well covered territory, and most intelligent college students get there on their own when they first learn how evolution actually works.
@@backpacker3421 remove the pressures on a species and overall improvement stops.
@@jkenwell a) evolution has nothing to do with improvement. It is ONLY about what adaptations are likely to increase odds of procreation. If an adaptation is no more likely to be passed to the next generation, then it is highly unlikely to spread enough to become a dominant trait in a given population
b) the term "pressures" is so broad as to be meaningless in your comment. Predation? Mating competition? Food scarcity?
There's still a LOT of food scarcity for humans as a species. We haven't removed that one. Disease? Still a thing, and access to healthcare that prevents or treats disease is FAR from universal. And the list does go on, but we've largely stabilized how those pressures impact the likelihood of passing on your genetic material.
But... I guess thank you for agreeing with me? That is what you were doing right?
@@backpacker3421 any successful adaptation is effectively an improvement. And pharmaceuticals are not healthcare. The very word pharmacy at the greek root means poison.
@@jkenwellStraight from a simple google search: “The Greek root is pharmakeia, which means ‘medicines or cure,’”
@@jkenwell medication isn't healthcare. Sure.
No, many adaptations are not inherently improvements. They are adaptations, and the fossil record is full of examples of adaptations that did promulgate but ultimately made a species unable to compete as pressures changed.
Your understanding of this is clearly limited. Let me guess, undergrad class.... maybe. More like high school I'd guess.
Good luck out there.
I'm unqualified to argue it properly, but I'm pretty sure our biological evolution is quite as continuous and rapid/slow as it has always been. Adaptive organisms don't stop adapting in a system that continues to change.
Evolution always occurs but he’s talking about evolution via natural selection. Which when you can control most natural events like we do becomes less of a factor but sexual selection is just as impactful if not more so than natural selection (just ask the peacock or any antlered animal, or bird of paradise or etc…)
Dna editing will be a thing in the future and it will be important to our species keep evolving or even evolve more quickly. I don't see any other way. Eugenia is very dangerous but will be a thing in the future.
Guarantee you its already happened in secret
Crocodilians are the perfect water ambush predators. They haven’t changed much in 80 million years.
Humans are the perfect technology users. Everything from our hairlessness, big brains, weak muscles not only facilitates technology, we absolutely need it to exist. We’re so good at this role we won’t evolve much for 80 million years either.
'where did TB go?' This guy needs to meet John Green.
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It's amazing how we've evolved so much, yet our bodies haven't changed at all. Producing way more food than a century ago shows how far we've come, but it also makes you wonder-are our bodies ready to keep up with all this progress?
Genetic engineering.
Evolution is slow. If we want to improve at a reasonable rate, we need to do it ourselves.
Cavities and cancer are examples of modern changes that happened after agriculture. Our bodies ARE keeping up, just not in a good way. Evolution is always equated as a positive thing, because the strong survive. However, mutations are almost always bad.
We started going down after agriculture. Our brain and size massively grew when we we're apex predators, not gatherers. We are designed to be apex carnivores. Simple as that. We have massive brains and weak digestive systems to compensate. We process plant toxins and convert plant material to animal materials very poorly because that requires a lot of energy and specialized organs. We simply forgot how to eat ancestrally and our bodies are falling apart as a result. Support your local farmer before the powers that be steal our food from us to "save the planet". Plant foods is slave food. We are lions, not sheep.
What's stopping human evolution? Technology, processed foods, politics, ignorance to science and willful ignorance.
punctuated equilibria
The fact that living cells are designed at all cost to maintain base code. They do not operate on a random mutation Paradigm. Hello! In this day and age we know cells literally function the exact opposite of how evolutionary theory mandates.
Nobody mentions the biggest biological constraint on the evolution of the brain. The head of the child has to fit the female birth canal at childbirth. If the head was to big, historically, that would kill both mother and child. Today, that problem can be mitigated by cesarean birth but it has been a long term limiter in brain size in human developement.
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I love science, I do science but evolution doesn't make sense.
and just 1 question I always ask is, why is it that since history has been recorded, which species has evolved as science and Darwin alluded? none I know of.
and this is not a matter of beliefs, a matter of where is the change when now people can record ...
so many questions I usually pose to my colleagues and such ...
but other elements under " evolution " umbrella make sense like speciation, natural selection, mutation etc make sense.
Also, it's just so convenient that our evolution is slow ... look at animals themselves, their environment hasn't changed much if any but still no evolution ...
Evolution is REALLY slow for slow breeding species.
You can find antibiotic resistant bacteria evolving. And peppered moths changing color. Evolution is more obvious on human timescales for these smaller and faster breeding species.
If you want to see large changes evolving, you need to look across large amounts of time.
This video is beyond stupid. It is taking an elementary school approach to the topic. Let me save you some time:
Evolution can be defined as "The change in gene frequencies within a population over time."
Some genes are so rare, that they are very unlikely to be passed on.
Some genes are so common, it is possible that mutations will arrive and endure because there are billions of copies of those genes present in the population.
And this, over time, means that there will be a change in the frequencies of genes.
To conflate Evolution to mean Speciation is wrong.
Open up the video making the distinction between Speciation and Evolution or just take the video down.
Yes, Speciation occurs through Evolution.
But for the love of whatever skydaddy you worship, don't mix the two up.
Speciation is what happens when you have certain conditions.
Evolution is something which is an unavoidable consequence within all populations.
If you can't clarify that distinction early in the video, then maybe you shouldn't be addressing the topic at all.
I find it interesting that none of the "downsides" are mentioned. For example, iatrogenesis is the third leading cause of death. Agriculture poisons us by the massive application of toxic chemicals, some of which gave us 'polio' (neurotoxins like DDT) in the past. Agriculture establishes unnatural ecologies by promoting monocultures for as far as the eye can see, which nature never produces. It leads to lower quality of food, soil depletion, nutrient depletion. None of the downsides of all this 'progress' are mentioned. Why? Is it really advantageous to have technologies that allow humanity to populate the planet far beyond the normal carrying capacity of Earth for our species, which in turn causes the expansion of agriculture, habitat loss for species needed to keep a balance, change in weather patterns, and so on? What happens when the chemicals and tools of manipulation run out? Will humanity collapse back to below a billion where it was before the chemical revolution allowed humanity to play god? Will it be even worse since the ecological health of the Earth will have been negatively impacted for not only decades but centuries? Is it a good thing that human population is able to expand to the degree that humans need to cut down the rainforest to feed everyone? How far does this madness go? It would have been one thing to keep population steady and increase the standard of living of the humans alive, but that isn't happening. We're a train wreck waiting to happen.
@MusingsFromTheJohn00 it is actually leading us to extinction or near extinction, because this so-called leap is destroying the very ecosphere humans and all life depend on [and no, I am not referring to 'climate change', but the various toxins and specie destruction that is happening as a result of this madness], imo.
Big Think is on a slump. Grasping. Does fine tuning of the universe keep you awake at night?
I can see evolution in ethnicity. When I look at old family pictures of my grandparents family, they look different from me and my family. They look more “ethnic” and we looked a bit more “American”. What I mean is that their features are more accentuated than mine.
That's not evolution. It's your kinfolk marrying cousins.
The twenty first century has produced spheroidal shaped people that use wheels as a primary mobility strategy.
wtf
If you think human evolution of humans has stopped, stick around for 100,000 or 500,000 years.
De-evolution is far more likely.
In the public eye, tptb are working on accelerating humanity's evolution. However, mutation is almost always a negative result and not a positive one. Behind closed doors, they've resolved to pollute and mutate humanity in a bid to make us less capable of opposing their rule, while taking advantage of any (exorbitantly and prohibitively priced) benefits that may be discovered along the way.
I would add that modern medicine practises would prevent any natural evolution. I would think that if a child was born with a sudden genetic evolutionary change doctors would treat it as they have done with hermaphrodites where surgery was/is performed to align the child with one sex, normally female. There is a genetic link between predominantly female Curvature of the Spine & predominantly male Down Syndrome where a village that was unusually high rates of female Curvature of the Spine has unusually low rates of Down Syndrome children. Female Curvature of the Spine is a simple operation to fix so would it be wise to encourage this to prevent Down Syndrome or would the visible one be cured encouraging the hidden?
Hmmm.., perhaps because it never happens
Welfare state and lack of free market capitalism.
Sean Carroll... I thought it was the astrophysicist 😂
Sexual selection is also a major driving force of evolution and shouldn't be overlooked.
LIES. SMALLPOX IS ALIVE AND WELL IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF EVERY CDC OF THE NATION AND THE WORLD.
Annoying ads. pointless.
Short answer: tiktok
“What’s stopping evolution” is such a silly header but I recognize the science illiteracy in our not so blessed nation 🇺🇸 evolution never stops
Allowing and realising that algorithms rule the info we get. Becoming tribal and within mass thinking...it only allows one to lose identity, the self and one's integrity.
Evolution is blind, but we don't have to be. But as soon as you talk about genetic counseling...
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
Seems like we're evolving to be better at diabetes and heart disease.
It wasn't survival of the fittest, it was and still is, survival of the greediest.
Well Reggaeton for starters. 😂
Our bodies are changing we just can't see it.
@MusingsFromTheJohn00 obese babies are part of that change. DNA and Genes are changing.
If people are not changing, then how do you explain the constant setting of new human performance records.
The rapid pace of cultural evolution contrasts with the slower pace of biological evolution because cultural changes spread quickly through learning and technology, while biological evolution requires genetic changes over many generations. Modern medicine has reduced the impact of natural selection, slowing biological change. Performance records improve due to advancements in training, nutrition, and technology, not because of biological evolution. Essentially, while our culture and technology advance rapidly, our biology evolves much more slowly.
Performance enhancing drugs
Running on scientifically engineered clothing tracks, shoes, clothing, foods from all around the world, etc. watch old school boxing and modern boxing and find that people are not necessarily better than their ancestors, we just made things easier for us.
Human bodies have changed a lot skin color, jaw size, teeth, eyes etc etc
Did you just fish this out of your couch cushions or have you taken biology 101?
It's called genetics
Sean B. Carroll (the evolutionary biologist) ≠ Sean Carrol (the cosmologist)
Thats the same guy
Liberalism mostly
Tax probably
So after watching the video i have to say humans are not likely to change much from biological stand point. Why? Well first off we have a pretty good understanding of genetics and DNA, if something started changing we would more then likely look at it as a negative and start to work against that altering gene, not allowing our bodies to naturally adapt and evolve around it. Second people choose their mate by look much more then a lot of other species, so if we see someone with worts that looked like tree bark we are less likely to want to have intimacy with them, which would lead to spreading those genes more which could lead to different looking humans down the line. in short we are so advanced in the way we procreate and deal with diseases that where not likely to evolve without some major global catastrophe.
Did not the bosch haber process to extract nitrogen from air , supplying fertilizer to more farms production ,or has this been non productive?😮
I am still going to listen for a little longer, but this seems like an ad for the agrichemical and agripharmaceutical complex. No mention of any downsides. No critical thinking. Operating on assumptions or deceptions?
This comment is low key racism, which I actually wouldn’t push back on if it was historical. Two thousand years ago all Anglo and Germanic tribes were considered barbarians, chiefly by the Romans. They eventually adapted Roman farming methods, architecture and technology, and built metropolises where there were none before. If they’d actually been inferior, as all superficial evidence would’ve suggested, that adaptation would’ve been impossible. So it goes for other populations and regions on our planet.
Human physiology isn't changing?...some places basics are maintained...other places we see humans who would not be able to live due to physical condition if they are exposed to outdoor environments.
"Whats stopping human evolution?"
Wokeness...
Lol, sad but true
And Cancel culture.
Plus...willingness to be: stupid, selfish, superior, extremist, cruel.
Automation
I hate this add and comercial in the video
Why? Because we are caring too much for those who are less able both physically and mentally. There is no selection of fittest for humans.
Darwin Awards works, though. 😀
Nothing.
no transhumanismus
opposite
Completely fails to address the disaster inherent in 2% of the population (immigrants and poor hippies and mega conglomerates) producing the food that 100% eats.
It's one of those tipping points.
3:00 humans left Africa 100,000 plus years ago.
This fella doesnt seem to realise that there has been isolation of our different subspecies until just yesterday, our brains aren't all the same ...
You’re not this dense
@@dee33912 you don't understand evolution and can't decucde from first principles.
I figure the next evolutionary step will be a major one, and will be one of the following. AGI allows exponential levels of advancement at rates barely dreamt of, changing our world in profound ways, and completely changing what it means to be human? We either merge with, or are forced to subsume to, our technology. The alternative is the AGI advances as human 2.0, and human 1.0 (us) either are killed off, die out, or maybe the Porno for Pyros song, Pets, becomes future humanities theme song.
I've observed *notable differences* in human anatomy over the past fifty years. Teenage girls' anatomy matches that of mature women and their level of overall "attractiveness" has increased dramatically. This is most likely due to better nutrition, focus on exercise, and advanced health supplements. Likewise, boys are developing into men at a faster rate with the advent of better training and performance enhancing drugs. ... If these differences are observable over a mere 50 years, then what will humans look like in 500 years?
People has too much fear now
You are scaring me
I was just about to unsubscribe when he started in about the possibility of more efficient agriculture lol thank goodness it ended by raising an eyebrow at the distribution of the agriculture produced. There is an obvious pyramid scheme in agricultural production/distribution that has diluted the nutritional value of and wastes over 30% of production through the profitability Big Oil receives with the entirely unnecessary distribution methods🤔
Its getting more beu
Religion… that’s what!
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
I have a theory (not sure if this is already a “thing”) but we will eventually lose our bone mass due to how we are living our lives and the weight we are carrying.
Nah. You do not understand evolution at all if you think it requires separation geographically. You are forgetting temporal evolution altogether. Evolution will happen if we are around another million or so years, separated from each other or not. Genomes of the past will not match genomes of the future and it is as simple as that. To say "oh Evolution can't happen because..." is nonsense. You are picking some extremely divisive examples "We all look differently because..." and immediately looking at the entire continent of Africa.
And who the hell brings somebody that can't speak higher than a High School Dropout onto a channel called "Big Think." FFS at least grow a pair and try to find somebody that knows about the field of Biology and don't pick up just "Joe Shmo" on the street who is parroting not textbooks, but popular works written by political pundits and trying to pass it off as science.
The academic rigor here is appalling.
Nothing, it just happens so slowly we won't notice until the results are visible. Pointless video.
There are children being born today that do not have wisdom teeth. That's evolution.
@lyleswanson7557 wisdom teeth grow in later. Or maybe they don't grow at all because few people are wise anymore. ;-)
Are people who were born without wisdom teeth more likely to have children?
@MusingsFromTheJohn00 complete nonsense
@MusingsFromTheJohn00 yes, I do know. They are destroying humanity. What they call the 'a huge class of useless eaters' now (Noah Yuval Harari, World Economic Forum). You're not going anywhere but 6 feet under with that 'science' of theirs. The future belongs to the oligarchs of the world and the few humans they want to keep around.
1st
Wtf was that
Spoke like a person with a lifespan of 80 years. Stopped evolving?! 😂😂😂😂
Well small pox is back lop
Jesus Christ told us what was at the root of disease and the rest of our culture."Ask and you shall receive." George Harrison echoed it. "It's all in the mind, ya know"
I understand that many people support the theory of evolution, but I personally have reservations about it. I believe there are valid concerns and questions about the evidence and interpretations surrounding it. I believe that God created humans, and this perspective is an important part of my faith.
I understand that there are different views on this topic, including the scientific theory of evolution. It's important to remember that scientific theories, like evolution, aim to explain natural processes and are not necessarily intended to disprove religious beliefs. I believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans on Earth, as described in my religious tradition.
When will people stop pretending that all population groups have the exact same distribution of cognitive qualities when we know that brains are the result of evolution and there has been significant time in different environments with different selection pressures and challenges?
We know this will have made a difference and it helps to explain patterns of outcomes which we see today, but instead of taking ownership and agency they blame others for the outcome distribution.
And this disproven take is why racism exists
@@Smittyxcmy thoughts exactly
@@Smittyxcno, there are plenty of studies that certain races, and cultures are less intelligent than other races.
Nice try but this is racist and proven false over and over again
Because many, many, many, many studies show that “cognitive qualities” or what I’ll call “measurable intelligence” is a factor of sociocultural upbringing FAR more than a factor of genetics.
I keep asking...
"Does anyone see any evidence of evolution in modern humans?"
If you study homo sapiens, it's obvious we're due for an evolutionary change.
Nothing is evident.
Stupidity !!!!!! 😊
whats stopping evolution and innovation is gen z thinking being a social media influencer is an actual career lmao
The bodies were never meant to change.. we were never from the monkey kind.
I was lovingly and fearfully made by God.
Interesting choice of words, ‘lovingly and fearfully made.’ If that’s the case, then it seems even the divine has a flair for dramatic irony. If we’re made by a perfect being, wouldn’t you expect a little less fear and a bit more flawless design? Maybe the ‘loving’ part got lost in translation while the ‘fearful’ aspect was given top billing.
@@UncleBuZleave her comment and listen:
﴿ يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ الْكَرِيمِ﴾
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@@windows10acc Oh, I see we’re invoking ancient scriptural rhetoric now. If we're talking about deception, perhaps we should ask how a 'generous' deity ended up with a playbook that includes endless confusion and contradictory messages. Seems like the real deception is thinking an old text holds all the answers for a modern world that’s evolved beyond such simplistic explanations.
@@UncleBuZWhilst I disagree with OP’s comment (no, I’m not made directly by God. He literally gave us the ability to procreate, so no, I’m not made directly by Him, and none of us are and it’s frankly delusional to think that we were when it was our parents who used their own given power who had sex), their point on “fearfully” is not to be understood in the common usage of the word today. “Fearful” means “reverential” in a religious context pertaining to God. Fear of God is not to be confused with being afraid of Him. It’s illogical to be afraid of a God of love, as you pointed out. Like with many other words and the complex ways that language evolves over the years, definitions of “fear” have also changed. A good example is the word “soul,” actually. When you consider encyclopaedic and other scholarly references, you’ll see the old meaning of “soul” as used in the scriptural texts *always* related to a living human or animal (unless the term “dead soul” was used, showing that the soul is not immortal). It wasn’t until the late church adopted Platonic philosophical traditions that the meaning of “soul” went from a living being to an immortal spirit. That’s an example of how language evolves and intended meanings get lost through corruption over time.
I realise that was a lot, but I hope my point made sense at least.
Which god??