So here is a guy that is running a marathon at 101 years of age. I am absolutely amazed by that. I’ve heard of people reaching a 100 years of age, but they usually already look like they are dead. When I first saw this guy, I thought it was really just another dumb hoax. The guy just doesn’t appear to be that old.
Is it just a fluke of nature, is it genetics, or is it a small sign of the modern human evolving even further with a longer life span? I don’t have the answer to that. I have always thought that while people can maximize their life expectancy, the human life span will always remain the same. Just like dogs. Dogs still only live like 12-15 years just like they did centuries ago. We still always hear about a dog that’s lived longer than the norm, but one always hears that same thing with humans as well.
There is something that I have pondered for years now and it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Buster Martin, but it could. Is it possible that there might be some people around that are more evolved than others? I’m not talking about race or ethnicity at all. What I am talking about is the possibility if some humans might have longer blood lines than other humans. Hence, evolution might have happened quicker for some people than others. On a side note, when it comes to evolution, I do believe that humans can evolve to adapt to the environment or evolve to become more enhanced and yet there still be a God, or intelligent design. I’m not just strictly on one side of the fence or the other.
But here is what I am getting at. Let’s say one person has a child at the age of 20, and then that person’s child has offspring at age 20, and then that child’s child has offspring at the age of 20, and so on and so on. And this goes on for centuries. Meanwhile, at the same time, another person has a child at the age of 30, and that person’s child has offspring at the age of 25, etc., you get the picture. One could say that one family has longer blood lines than the other family. Even though there is interbreeding of humans across families that have different bloodlines, the possibility could exist that someone, for the most part, has a complete family history of long blood lines, or more generations of ancestors behind them than another person. This might explain why some people just might have higher IQ’s than others or why some people live longer. They could just be more “evolved” than others because their complete historical family history has had more chances of replicating its DNA than another person. So if what I have written has any merit, it could be very possible that someone else is more of a “modern” human than I.