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We don’t hide in our concrete hives. We exist (or our technology)in the North Pole and the South Pole and every point in between. Plus the moon, Venus, mars, Jupiter all the way out to Pluto. We are voraciously curious species. And technological advancement is not a totally separate process from evolution.....far from it. We know that most Neanderthals were right handed because the bone in their left arm was bowed and heavier. They aimed the shaft of their spear with their right hand and drove the spear into animals with their left hand. The spear literally shaped them physically. And with each generation they became stronger and stronger. Our massive thumb muscle and truly opposeable thumb which is in stark contrast to other apes was a result of manipulating and flaking rocks into stone tools used for cutting, scraping, poking, meat and hides and vegetation to eat, build clothes and shelters...... Cyborgs of the future are just a natural extension of this process that has transformed a knuckle walking Chimp like ancestor into Homo Sapiens. We are our inventions and they are us. And this pace is becoming rather fast, far outstripping natural selection. But its not separate from it.

While we hide in our concrete cave-hives. You still weren't getting me earlier, and biotech is not a counterexample to what I mean. Technological advancement is a totally separate process from evolution, which acts on DNA. It seems to me that if you start solving all your problems with technology as we have, you displace the environmental pressures that cause the evolutionary process; your technology "evolves" to address these pressures, but your species' genes don't. There will be counterexamples you could come up with, the immune system being a big one, but I think for macroscopic traits it will mostly hold up.

That H.U.L.C. exo-skeleton is ancient tech by today's standards, dating back 15 years. Tier one operators began testing the Lockheed K-SRD system last year; in one test, men that could do 20-25 squats with a 185 pound load were able to do over 50. With that kind of lifting ability, why settle for an M-4 when you could rock and roll with, say, a mini-gun.

I'm not sure who has mastered what but I would bet the farm on one thing. If you put that military guy out in the remote wilderness by himself, with AR-15 and exoskeleton included, I'd bet a sasquatch would take him in a nanosecond if it wanted to.

If mods could change thread title to reflect correct spelling of last name: Bindernagel please, thx. https://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/news/renowned-valley-sasquatch-researcher-passes-away/ Renowned Valley sasquatch researcher passes away - Comox Valley Record.pdf