Re: [Geology2] Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size

The story in the Bible (specifically Genesis) that you are alluding to refers to the children of Cain, who were the product of angel and human females. Only one verse exists in Genesis that details this occurrence, but more can be found in the Books of Enoch--special focus on origin in the first Book. Aside from that, their progeny was wiped off the face of the earth, according to the legend, by Noah's flood.

Lin

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Allison Loukanis <allison.m.loukanis@att.net> wrote:

 

I wonder what size humans will be in the next 24 million generations? The dresses that belong to the First Ladies in the Smithsonian were tiny. That was just what ...six generations ago? Ten? And the Bible refers to giants...so what happened? Did we shrink and now we are getting bigger? lol...Allison

From: Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net>
To: dis <ancient_discoveries@yahoogroups.com>; deltaflyers3@yahoogroups.com; deltaflyers2@yahoogroups.com; geol <geology2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:59 AM
Subject: [Geology2] Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size

 

I love when that happens . . .

Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size

Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:28 +0000

Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size 
National Geographic News, February 3, 2012 
 
Some mammals need roughly 24 million generations to go from mouse-size
  to elephant-size, a new study says. Using both fossil and living
specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian
 
groups during the past 65 million years—and found that, for mammals,
  getting big takes longer than shrinking. It takes a minimum of 1.6
million generations for mammals to achieve a hundredfold increase in
body size, about 5 million generations for a thousandfold increase, and
about 10 million generations for a 5,000-fold  increase, the team
discovered. 
 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120203-mammals-evolution-body-size-science-elephants-mice/ 
   
 
 

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