I don't really understand this step of evolution.
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Synapsids include mammals-so I'm not sure what your question means.  Evolutionarily they seem to have evolved (from earlier reptiles) around the same time as the dinosaurs.  The link I provide is an excellent resource.
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There isn't a purpose to evolution.  It's simply what happens when you get imperfect replicators competing for limited resources.  It's like asking to purpose of current traveling through the path of least resistance.  There's no purpose there, it's just what the laws of nature dictate must happen in that circumstance.
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You clearly had a poor science class.  Never has the Theory of Evolution stated that man is descendant from APES....\n\nThe Theory of Evolution states that Apes, along with Man, is descendant of a previous life form.  \n\nThink not of Evolution as a Ladder, but as a branching bush.\n\nMan came from previous Hominids, and so did Apes.  \n\nThe separation of races came from the environments.  You see that, in general, the races close to the equator are more dark skinned.  You also see that the races with out as much direct contact to the sun have white skin, which is more susceptible to sunlight, so they recieve more.   \n\nIt's like how the pupil in your eye grows larger and smaller depending on how much light there is.  White skin is comparable to a larger pupil, to get more light.  Dark skin is comparabe to a small pupil, to not recieve as much light, because the environment already has a lot of direct sunlight.\n\n\nAs for all the anti-evolution books below, you may read them, but then read these, the articles all proving the books wrong.\n\nhttp://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_doland/creator.html\nhttp://www.ncseweb.org/icons/\nhttp://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/1244_darwin_on_trial_a_review_12_7_2000.asp\nhttp://www.infidels.org/library/modern/peter_atkins/behe.html\nhttp://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mark_vuletic/denton.html\nhttp://www.kcfs.org/pandas.html
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Good job!\n The timelines are the key to the fallacies in the Evolution THEORY! Oh, did I mention that it IS a THEORY?\n\n Who created the timelines anyway? Scientists.\nThe reason evolution has to REMAIN a theory is because there is no human eyewitness documentation of the timelines...\n\nThis is exactly why every time an Athiest Scientist sets out to prove the Bible wrong....they end up becoming Creation Scientists! Because, if they are TRUTHFUL there IS NO evidence to support Darwins' claims.\n\nCheck it ALL out on...\n\nwww.answersingenesis.org   ~Ken Ham(from Australia)\n\nwww.drdino.com  ~Kent Hovind (American)\n\nBoth of these men have EXTENSIVE info on this subject\n\nYou can find everything you need there and other
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Evolution isn't something that happens instantly, it is a slow process that takes a long time. Humans actually have only been around for a few thousand years and "civilized" humans have only been around for 10,000 years. In fact, hominids (upright walking apes that are all extinct except for humans) have only been around for less than 2 million years. We are evolving slowly but by the time we radically change, we will not notice because the change would have been very very slow.
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origins are hard for small minds to wrap around.  Modern minds are conditioned to getting answers in a few seconds of a soundbite, otherwise they are bored.  Some teenagers still believe in the easter bunny and santa clause. It wasn't Adam and Steve.  Yes, evolution is a process that takes millions of years, not a soundbite of a few seconds. Evolution may seem to have stages, but they never stop. If you don't believe in the concept of evolution, you don't believe in the concept of graduation and may have to get a job at the level of the rest of us apes.
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It seems to be a parallel to the evolution of civilization and the evolution of a relationship.\n\nBut that's just me i could be wrong.
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The differences between races are almost entirely cosmetic. All humans are the same species, and there has been only one species of humans for at least 150,000 years.\n\nThe idea of "speeding up" evolution is not only morally repugnant, it's also pragmatically impossible to pull off. Significant evolution doesn't happen in one or two generations -- it takes many generations. At about 20 years per generation, you'd have to run the program of selective breeding for a minimum of 200 years just to isolate a particular new line. Even then, you've only got a small population of the new line, and for that line to grow to a population of a billion or more people would take thousands of years.\n\nEvolution is a very slow process. People who disbelieve it often do so because they simply can't comprehend how long millions of years are, let alone billions of years.
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Ummmm Last time I checked humans have never evolved into monkeys.  However, there has been a lot of scientific research indicating that apes may have evolved into humans over very long amounts of time.   Evolution is something that occurs over an extremely long amount of time... if humans started living in water now- in thousands of years we could live like a fish. Do your research and don't judge people on what they do or do not believe. That isn't very Christian-like is it? Christians are supposed to be really nice and respectful aren't they?  The Bible could hold some truth, or it could possibly just be a way of setting good morals. No one knows for sure if God exists, and thats a fact.  I think you need to do some research.... I mean good grief- you thought we evolved into monkeys. I think you're a little backwards.  haha!
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It is thought that man came from ape like ancestors, not quite monkey's.  \n\nIt could take hundreds of thousands of years for macro evolution to occur.  Wait around that long, and i guarantee there will be NEW species.  So it is still happening.\n\nThe fossil record is not complete because fossils are hard to come by, not everything fossilises despite contrary belief.  In fact it's amazing we have as much info as we do.\n\nHow on earth does it take less belief to believe in a god, there is no evidence whatsoever for this!  At least evolution has enough evidence to fill several hundred warehouses, what do you have, testimony.. Yeah right, thanks, i'll keep to evidence, not faith to inform my decisions about the world around me.
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Evolution happens to populations of organisms not individuals, and populations of humans across the globe are continually evolving. Evolution is a change in gene frequency in a breeding population over time - that's it. Of course you need a $100,000 lab to show most of it but it happens all the time. Many people see evolution only as 'speciation' - that's just one possible end point. Speciation might occur, for example, if enough gene frequencies change in a population so that the individuals look different or smell different from most, or a catastrophe geographically isolates one group - something divides them from others. The isolated group no longer breeds with once similar populations, the differences in gene frequencies between them accumulate. Over eons of time, at some point, this population may become a new species, no longer capable of breeding with its parent species; or it may become a subspecies - related but biologically isolated; or a sister species; or part of a circle species - there are many levels of relatedness. And then it happens again and again - populations continually dividing and changing - driven by an individual organism’s success at parenting fertile young. The genes that made a parent a success where they lived and who they lived with are passed on to the next generation. Genetically, we are what worked, when and where our parents made us. \n\nEvolution does not mean we are improving or getting better. Evolution has no bias about good or bad, and no direction; you either fit your environment well, move with it, change when it changes, or you die out. So evolution works quicker for organisms with short generation times and large populations (like insects or bacteria). It's no wonder that the insect and bacterial world is chock full of subspecies and sister species. Human evolution is a very ponderous affair because of our 25 year generational time. Ordinarily, it may take hundreds or thousands of generations to see some significant changes - there are many exception of course - but don't expect to see any differences between humans unless you look on a scale of millennia or more.
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For the millionth time...\n\nNatural selection is the opposite of "random chaos."\n\nOnce you have educated yourself on the subject of evolution (and that education does NOT come from your preacher or Answers in Genesis), the question is not whether you "believe" in it, but whether you accept it.\n\nThe purpose of life is to live it. Any purpose beyond that you decide on your own. Me personally, I would like to leave the world better than I found it.\n\nPS... I suppose by "Abba" you mean "father" and not the groovy (but slightly cheesy) Swedish band from the 70s?
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First, let me get some ambiguous terms out of the way. First, there's micro-evolution. This is like breeding dogs to get the dog you want. Then, there's macro-evolution, which is breeding dogs to get a human after milllions of years. Okay.\nMicro-evolution is, obviously, possible because the genes of the dogs change to let it's grandchild be a different kind of dog. However, there's a limit to how much genes can change. After a while, the dog will be really different from his ancestors (chihuahuas and great danes) but can never turn into a non-dog. I've never seen a dog give birth to a cat-dog. It's just not possible. Think of it this way. If you take the word "Cat" and change one letter at a time, you can come up with "hat," "mat," and "pat." Can you ever come up with "orange?" No, orange doesn't have three letters.\n  The only way for evolution to be possible is if a lizard mates with a squirrel to produce a bird. And I don't think it's possible for that to happen, do you? Sure, donkeys and horses can mate to produce mules, but they're related (like dogs and wolves.)\n   If you ever see an owl-kangaroo, I'll take this back. For more answers about evolution, go to www.drdino.com.
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Evolution is by no means a one road definition.  That is, not even those who study it completely understand it.  I think, however, it may be unwise to think of evolution as having a "purpose".  Evolution is a process, with definite outcomes, but saying it has a purpose almost implies it is a living thing.\n\nI believe you may mean that in order to evolve, then beings must die.  As it stands right now, this is absolutely correct.  That is to say, in order for a species as a whole to change, mutations must happen, and then be passed on to further generations, and then become selected for.  If this in fact happens, then the those with the old traits will be selected against, and hence may die.  This is not because they are supposed to die, but because there is now something out there which better fits a niche and will compete for it.\n\nAs for the idea of eternal life, as it stands right now, it is completely unknown, and almost unfathomable.  One of the reasons for this is because the niches we live in are continually changing.  If organisms did not change as a species to fit them, then they would die out completely.  As long as the environment changes, one way or another, life will change to fit it as best it can.\n\nThis is not to say, however, that the idea of immortality is impossible to fathom.  There is nothing in evolution that touch on anything spiritual, including what humans call the soul.  These things are inherently seperated from evolution because of the fact that you can completely describe evolutions effects without considering it.  However, if you choose to believe in a soul, then I see no reason why it couldn't be a possibility.  But evolution does not encourage it.  I'm sorry.
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its a complex question with a simple answer.. life just easier than you are giving it credit for.. if life were more difficult, then perhaps such evolutionary developments like you are suggesting would be necesary
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whats sad to me is the standard sheeple line of there is no proof of evolution,\n\ni could accept there is not enough evidence to support this in my mind,\n\nthe sheeple mentality is most apparent in the discussion regarding evolution, it shakes out the sheeple,\n\nit clearly separates the men from the sheeple
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Hey Bud, have you ever taken a class in evolution?\n\n"You're logic is flawed. There is plenty of evidence to show small adaptations within a species. These small variations enable animals to adapt to their environments.\n\nBut to go from that to changes from one species to another is quite a blind leap of faith and poor science as well. " Poor science according to who?\n\nHow many small variations does it take to turn one species into another?  A few small genetic variations make slight changes in organisms.... a few more make more changes... a few more make even more changes, and eventually enough of these little changes of added up so that the 2 groups of organisms are no longer able to interbreed. Thus, a new species - evolution at work.\n\nPoor science is when people who have not studied evolution try to disprove it. You come up with some pretty wacky ideas. Evolution is not something that animals do on purpose to improve. There is no plan, purpose, or goal to evolution. An animal that adapts to his environment (after he is already born) like your example is NOT evolution. Evolution affects populations, not individuals, and it does not 'occur' after an organism is born. Evolution only occurs when the gene frequency in the population is changed, through natural selection, random mutation, drift, etc.