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Title: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: the shutdown man on 16 February, 2009, 10:56:13 AM
//http://www.open.ac.uk/darwin/devolve-me.php

Upload a pic of yourself and see what you'd look like as a Australpithecus Afarensis! I think you'll be pleasently surprised....
Title: Re: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2009, 11:03:36 AM
Cool widget, thanks!

But...

"Try a different stage of man"?

Isn't this back to some very dodgy notions of a unitary evolutionary path that includes all the 'options' presented, and features 'man' (cough) as the pinnacle, nay the purpose, of the whole show?  What happened to the bushy tree of the hominidae? (Please, no allusions or links to sites featuring the genitally hirsute).
Title: Re: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: the shutdown man on 16 February, 2009, 11:07:23 AM
Quote from: "TordelBack"Isn't this back to some very dodgy notions of a unitary evolutionary path that includes all the 'options' presented, and features 'man' (cough) as the pinnacle, nay the purpose, of the whole show?  What happened to the bushy tree of the hominidae? (Please, no allusions or links to sites featuring the genitally hirsute).


Um......it morphs your picture dude. That's all I know.....
Title: Re: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2009, 11:23:02 AM
QuoteUm......it morphs your picture dude. That's all I know.....

I know, and that bit is very cool.  I just expect a bit more useful context from the Open University, rather than casually perpetuating the old myths of human evolution.  Wrong side of the bed this morning, apologies.
Title: Re: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: the shutdown man on 16 February, 2009, 11:40:29 AM
No worries chief.
Title: Re: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: TheEdge on 16 February, 2009, 02:30:13 PM
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Title: Re: Devolve Yourself!
Post by: Kerrin on 16 February, 2009, 04:50:35 PM
My computer must be broken. There was no change.