by Juan Mendez
The answer will shock you; it's both. Since Darwin, evolution has
been described as a process of natural selection over successive
generations. But some scientific researchers, among them the
controversial Dr. Zend have seen flaws in this thinking. "I could
never quite get my arms around one-generational changes that
occasionally occur to certain species, such as butterflies in regard
to abrupt changes in climate or predators."
Dr. Zend later turned his attention to the possible interbreeding
between modern and archaic humans during the Lower or Middle
Paleolithic periods. Three sample-sets of reconstructed
mitochondrial DNA applied to charts of mutation for this genetic
property supposedly ruled out Neanderthal and modern human
mating; but the exchange of body lice between Homo erectus and
modern humans in Asia was thought to prove intimate contact.
Dr. Zend studied the sudden disappearance of archaic skull
morphology in greater Tasman-Oceania during the Nineteenth
Century. His findings shocked the scientific community and earned
him scathing criticism.
Dr. Zend postulated that a species adapts based on pre-existing
genetic inheritances AND species-aware changes in environmental
conditions.
For example the genetic makeup of the aboriginal inhabitants of
Tasman-Oceania had Caucasian components as well as many
others. When the Crown took ownership and British settlers
appeared, indigenous individuals with archaic features such as
pronounced brows, prognathous jaws etc disappeared within a
century. "It's almost like the species itself played a computer-like
probability game and adapted without slaughter or failure to
procreate. Babies were born with the more appreciated features of
the new majority, rather than replicating the near past.
"I think we can see this in European graveyards in the
middle-ages, when archaic bone structures began to disappear
among a peasantry that was adapting to the new sense of
majority. Call it what you like but it's more than simply natural
selection; it anticipates natural selection!"
Among his many critics is Professor Simian of the Herangi Institute
for Unapplied Science at Drewson University. "Zend's analysis is
completely crackers. The original inhabitants of Tasman-Oceania
disappeared before the 20th century started. As far as archaic
cranium morphology, it's poppycock from some loony web-sites.
Zend is a knuckle-head," Professor Simian added with emphasis.
Zend replies, "The current native population is an admixture
predominately of European fathers and indigenous mothers. It
defies the biological rules governing probability that traits regarded
as regressive by the newly dominant group should suddenly be
bred out all offspring. Professor Simian can go back to swinging
from the tree of No-Knowledge."
Rather than celebrate the intelligent hand of the mysterious,
religious groups also deplore Dr. Zend's thesis. "He puts ugly cave
men and chimps in our family tree," castigated Reverend H. Billy
from the Southpaw Family worship center and Online shopping mall.
