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Forcing evolution by "exercise"
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Preamble: If you exercise, your muscles grow and you become stronger.

So as we all know, humans are currently limited to hearing between the ranges of 15Hz and 20,000Hz, and seeing light between the wavelengths of 380nm and 750nm (visible spectrum).

Is it possible to somehow "exercise" the ear and eye muscles into expanding these ranges? Obviously jumps and bounds wouldn't be made, but the same applies to conventional muscle development. Surely there must be some way to gradually increase the body's sensitivity to wavelengths.

Thoughts?

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Well, I believe that the shape of your ear could affect how well you could hear, so evolution might help play a part in hearing efficiency increasing. but as far as exercising your ears, I am not sure.

And my optometrist told me that by focusing and defocussing your eyes, you are exercising the muscles within your eyes, so you are increasing your vision, but I am not sure on perception.

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Quote: from Ancient Rights at 12:38 am on Mar. 24, 2008

Well, I believe that the shape of your ear could affect how well you could hear, so evolution might help play a part in hearing efficiency increasing. but as far as exercising your ears, I am not sure.

And my optometrist told me that by focusing and defocussing your eyes, you are exercising the muscles within your eyes, so you are increasing your vision, but I am not sure on perception.


Obviously with your eyes you would need to be exercising the cones and rods inside the retina, as they are responsible for the interaction between photons and neurons.

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Post edited at 1:23 am on Mar. 24, 2008 by obvious child

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Well, muscles are sorta designed as scalable, changing parts of the body and therefore have the capacity to "grow" or "shrink" depending on how much they are excercised. That being said, I somewhat doubt eyesight/hearing can be excercised in a similar way to do anymore than improve them to a certain threshold. The way I see it is, there is a threshold for how small/large your muscles can grow and become stronger. There is also a threshold for how good one can see or hear - with seeing it'd be 20/20 vision. That being said, it is a known fact that focusing your eyes in something quite close to you for long periods of time can cause your eyes to become accustomed to that "threshold" of seeing and reduce the quality of seeing something farther away. This can be considered more of a flaw as the eye does not become stronger at all, in fact it merely becomes weaker as the body seems to think it doesn't need to see in the distance as much. However, if we were to excercise our eyes to achieve 20/20 vision in people that might not have perfect vision, we still would only be able to achieve 20/20 as that is the threshold of the scope of human vision.

So by saying we could perhaps "force" evolution by excercising our bodies in different ways, you are almost inferring that we "evolve" as we achieve bulkier/stronger muscles. However, this is not the case. It is merely a case of the muscles growing and shrinking depending on how much or how little we use them, and they will never grow/shrink past their threshold of strength/growth.

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Quote: from obvious child at 12:17 am on Mar. 24, 2008

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You were going to say "That's not evolution, that's Lamarckism!" weren't you?  


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Quote: from mountain hare at 1:16 pm on Mar. 26, 2008

Quote: from obvious child at 12:17 am on Mar. 24, 2008

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You were going to say "That's not evolution, that's Lamarckism!" weren't you?  


actually I did. I posted a link, quote, etc and then realized he's not talking about passing on traits, just augmenting them in the current individual.

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