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I never bleieved ine volution sorry, as for the futur as to drink blood and absorbng it well Is ee it more as an adapting process then an evolution process

Evolution is real to me (in many cases I am much a science person and as anything else).

Though people evolving to digest blood better. Thats a little hard, since it give no real advantage to a modern person. No reason for that type of evolution to happen. Well unless every one started consuming blood and people where dieing from it, then those with the stronger immune systems and such would over time. But that would take a while.

Its my belief that well evolution might be possible but its something that i never see proof for.

And for the blood well I think just a mere adaptation of the consumption of the blood you get.

Yes, evolution will happen. But as far as vmpires being able to drink more and more blood without vomiting, their body has become accustomed to the intake of the blood and therefore has built up a tolerence to it. That is adaptaion and it happens within every human being, whether vampire or not, for anything be it water to beer to blood to whatever you want to say. It is not exactly evolution right now, but as far as the future goes, who knows what is in store as far as this topic goes. Carpe Noctem

If one is able to talk a large amount of blood and not get sick, I think then yes evolution is happening with being a vamp... evolution happens to everything else why not us right?LOL

i take blood in small quanities for now expieriment with larger doses from time to time your body should adjust to it thats my opinion and i may be wrong but i cant hurt to try

the only blood i drink is my own if i nick myself and thats only to try and stop the flow or clean it away

I don't drink blood but if you drink it enough then it becomes part of you and yu get used to drinking it and if your a real vampire then you already evolved with one bite and you can do it with out vomiting but if your not and you are fake then I would sujest takeing a little at a time so you can get used to it and you don't get sidk because you took way to much K so just do what I told you and you shall do well to keep it down K

from what i hear your body has to get used to the intake of blood. then the vomiting will cease when u become used to it. there is a certain amount of ounces that you can drink that is lethal. there was a post about this before and i cant recall who responded but there are ppl out there that know the exact amount of ounces. and all the different reactions ur body has from drinking blood.

Evolution will happen eventually.
The thing is, when?

I doubt we shall live to see it, but in this case i think it is an adaptation rather than an evolution.

Illianos.

Sorry, You have no chance at evolving. First, generally speaking, due to modern medicine and dignostic methods natural evolution for humankind has probably stopped altogether.
Second, since drinking blood is not a trait wich increases your chances of survival especially inchildhood - see the first point - it's not evolution. As a single individual one might adapt.

But that's all. Sorry to bust that baubble. :-)

Evolution no but some can get used to drinking larger amounts of blood,just like with beer the more you drink it the more you can consume.

No evolution - don't think blood consumption gives a competitive advantage.

I dont think it will happen at all, it would only really happen if it was a necessity in life....say if it was like the only source of food or something like that....

I highly doubt that there is an actual health benefit to consuming large quantities of blood. Even if your stomach can adapt to not puking up small amounts, it doesnt mean that natural selection will produce a future state of human blood drinkers.

I suppose your tolerance increases the more your body gets used to it regularly.

sure i guess adaptation is possible i mean you ever heard that saying its an aquired taste i guess its like that

Evolution is inevitable I agree ncbandit. Man kind has survived all this time due to the ability to evolve

This is a very interesting subject.. Though it's difficult for me to comfortably share my opinion, considering that I am unsure that evolution is a real fact or just a theory.. I do think it makes too much sense in this case to denounce. I suppose I will also have to agree with Bandit.

I agree with SarraS, even though I do not persay believe in evolution I do know that humans have reached their physical limits as far as substantial adaptation. Blood drinking will do nothing for the body other than iron and some calories.

The next step for humans is through science and medicine, not nature,

Before we began cooking our foods...we at them raw, so perhaps we're devolving..

Personaly I dont know if evolution is more theory or fact. But it doesnt make sense that the amount of blood you drink would have any effect on your body and how it adapts. Blood is just water, iron, some vitamins etc and a lot of it is destroyed in the stomach.

I think that it is as evolution.

It was shown in Cro-magnum man, Homo-erectus, and the Neanderthal.

By eating differently they evolved differently until the Neanderthal was no more.

To look at them now one would say that they were not related. They couldn't have bred, it would be like a dog and a cat trying to breed.

You have brought up a really interesting subject with this one, this time.

In the face of disaster, evolution or extinction occurs. The vampire condition itself is a result of an evolution. Humans drinking blood because they desire it will not bring about an evolutionary change. At best, it will bring about a wave of popularity should it ever catch on en masse.

i am not evolutioning into anything but myself well i dont think i am

I believe that all creatures do evolve. Over thousands of year the human body changes to adapt to it’s surrounding and it habits.
I personally do not get sick when drinking large amounts of blood. I don’t know why.

Personally I cant see how anyone enjoys drinking blood, but whatever you're poison is.

Just by simply drinking blood isn't going to make you evolve

The vampire bat source of food and only food is blood … it even numbs the area with it’s spittle by licking … that is evolution it wasn’t made that way …. Im applying same logic to my friends consumption of blood and yours maybe.
As for the vampirism condition there are too many varbles as to why you feel that way.

wow that is something to think about. though i think it is possable to go through minor changes... i wouldnt call in evolution. your body will adapt to your surroundings.

In the bat's case, it 's feeding behaviour filled a niche which improved it's chances to pass on its genetic pattern. That's called survival of the species. There's no telling ho many unsucessful niches where tried and failed.

So, those of you believing that drinking blood is evolution for humans, pray tell me - in simple words a simple minded moron like myself can understand - how said drinking of blood improves your chances to pass on your genes.

And I don't think it's a game off feed and get laid. ;->

The operative word is improve! This means the chance to sire offspring is greater for those drinking blood, than those who don't.

If this cannot be proven, it's definitely not evolution, no matter what you choose to believe.

Just saying "your body will adapt to your surroundings" is not describing evolution, this would be "adaption". It might result in evolution, if and only if these traits can be genetically described and lead to increased chances of breeding.

If this was unclear try Wikipedia or something similar for a description of evoltion. It should be right in the beginning...

I believe all things evolve. So, yes.

ive always tried to accept things for how they are.. if u think about it too hard u could miss out on wat life has to offer

I agree with CryingMist. It is more adaptation. Kind of like adapting to a medicine. If you take it long enough, your body with adjust to it. I myself am not a vampire, nor do I drink blood. I like the taste at times, but not a lot.

if we didnt evolve then we would still be ape man walking around with sticks and rocks. the thing is were r we heading in evolution

Well if you give any species enough time anything can happen

I do believe in evolution (I am by far a massive science and biology finatic) but I do not see that humans are involving in the for of being able to drink blood.

Sure we have evolved in other ways, but blood is not a natural thing that our body is able to correctly digest.

As for some people being able to drink larger quantities of blood than others, the answer could be quite simple.

A) The have a higher tolerance of not abosorbing as many minerals and as much nurtients as most (which in it's self is a health complication)

or

B) The person has abnormally low iron levels and is actually benifiting from the high levels of iron they are digesting. Although, this could also make them I'll, a body can only absorb so much iron at once.

I agree with FlawlessFource we used to eat our food raw and we developed to learn how to cook it then eat it so maybe vampires that drink blood are going backwards and drinking blood so they can live and like I said before you need to take a little at a time then when you get used to it then you can drink as much as you want without the vomiting and you can enjoy yourself

I don't think developing a tolerance to blood drinking (i.e. not throwing up after too much like most people) would be the same as evolving. A person who can drink larger amounts has probably learned to overcome a natural impulse to throw up as opposed to having developed some different physical reaction to it. A bit like losing your 'gag reflex' probably not being an evolution among porn stars.

Liked that comparison. Really have to try it next time at a tea party... ;-)

And yes, that's what I'm trying to explain all the time. Maybe it's a problem in semantics.

Evolution does not equal personally evolving!

I think evolution is similar to adapting, it just takes longer to evolve than to adapt, evolution over centuries, yeah sure. Anything happening faster than that I would consider populus adaptation. Blood consumption and digestion, that`s a tough one, though, tolerance could be improved, but I think, physically, if it were desired, no human person could completely adapt to just living off blood, and that is neither evolution, or adaption. That is mutation, right there. In theory, how long would a person live off a strict diet of just blood, IF their bodies were able to, IF, mind you, before becoming ill and dying?

As far as evolution i don't believe we will evolve to a point of being able to intake mass amounts of blood. But, as a vampire, I believe that we do build up a tolerance for the amount we take in. I know that the amount I can take in has increased since I first began.

hmm good points

Isn't the theory of evolution the theory whereby one species becomes another species? I am not sure how it applies to drinking blood. Are we talking about humans evolving into a vampire bat like species able to sustain itself on blood?

Even if I believed in the THEORY of Evolution (which I don't) I would find the likelyhood of a species of bipeds evolved from homo sapiens that sustained itself primarily, or solely on blood, harder to swallow than a quart of the substance in question.

The human body was not designed to be subjected to massive amounts of the poisons which we ingest daily (aspertame, MSG, White Flour, White Sugar, Red Dye #5, Flouride, Chlorine, et al.) It sugests that global health issues will result such as we have for milk intolerance, growth hormone and progesterone abnormalities, and diabetes.

Sure the human is adaptable, just like we have adapted to all forms of inhospitable environemental and self inflicted trauma, with the sacrafice of comfort, and health.

Well it is not blood itself that sang vampires need but the life inside the blood. Some believe the blood has an energy that is what the vampire needs. Just like a psy takes the energy directly from the humans soul or life essense that surrounds them.

No one can get use to drinking blood. Human evolution is not that fast. They can adapt to it but still it can cause just as much harm and illness then anything else. Vampires just have to be careful how much they take from someone.

they must take care in the blood they drink and how much I agree, Energy flows through it, but as far as evolution goes, I don't believe they will or can evolve to such a state.

i totally believe in it

yes humans and or vampires do evolve slow it may be hundreds of years before evolution takes part

this is interesting i want aware drinking blood was leathal.

people dont evolve on a personal basis, evolution is not adapting to the environment. its when people with certian traits survive and reproduce and others dont. So unless people who drink blood live and reproduce more then those who dont were not going to evolve. You can not force evoultion by drinking blood either it would be something your born with that you can pass on not something you aquire.

i believe inevolution on all levels except reglious

Some people have blood fetishes HellaciousRose, like me O_O ooooooo
but i never drank to the point where i felt sick O_o o_O maybe i haven't drank enough O_O
i'm gonna try it out.. hopefully i out get fat... i'll probably won't eat the whole day when i attemp this... i'm curious... i'm a curious cat, it's not gonna kill me, blood is the life!!

I agree with lord of the dammed evolution is very slow so it would take a while

I don't believe in it as they're teaching it in schools..we were once apes...dont think so. But yes I think over time small changes happen, which explains the difference in people from country to country, coloring, body hair and such.

Depends on what changes your looking for … with disease every 10 years or so someone totally immune is born, with out this our race would of ended a long time ago
We have organs and sensual receptor we don’t use anymore, some one blind starts to use them again … that change is very quick

As for history and the ape they have realized what the missing link was in the chain … they used a different species to us in the chain the one they used died out not so long ago.

This is true- I think that it is possible to evolve into being able to drink blood easier. There are many people who raise cows for meat, but they only kill the cow, and drink the blood for substenance, then sell the meat to gain full profit. I think it's perfectly possible to 'get used' to drinking blood. Probably not all that amazingly fast seing as how these people have been drinking blood for several generations...

Hey whatever blows your skrit up!

I wish to suggest to 30% of the users posting here to get a new keyboard and / or get [unnamed] spell check plug-in / program .

Also , evolution is real [wooooh , fire !]
But as I recall , it takes a while .
You don't grow gills if you like swimming .

will i think it is.

there are many tribes in Africa and India that drink large amounts of cow blood to this day

I think vampires are the evolution, the next step... I also think that drinking blood is a good practice... of course depending of the source... blood must be warm... and if its surrounding a beating heart, much better... cheers!!!

I wonder if junk DNA is the reason, we have lots of spare dna that’s not doing much as we know right now it causes mutations is also believed to be left over as we evolve yet don’t need any more, besides that poison and radiation both have mutation effects… I wonder if this has any bearing on how my friend drinks so much

what drives the blood need if it's not part of us?

evolution usually happens over many generations not just in one..basically the more complex u are the longer it takes.obviously there are some anomalies in nature but for most it is just a building of tolerance.as one of my best friends was a vegetarian for quite some time and decided to come back to the flesh eaters at first he kept getting sick but as time passed he became more and more of a carnivore.now he eats meat more than me.

I don't think evolution is to do with it... Adaption, Yes.

If you drink a glass of wine/beer, it will stay down.
If you drink a glass of blood, you will throw up almost immediately.
Our gut, rejects blood, Because it THINKS we are internally bleeding and we'd end up, bloating out IF we were bleeding internally.
HOWEVER, you can adapt to taking more blood, over time.
I don't think the belly can FILL UP, with blood and NOT reject it tho.

I too often wonder why Vampires, CRAVE blood.. and not something Like Chocolate!!
I only like the taste on my lips.. I often bite my own lip, for a taste.

Over the years, A vampire hasn't changed, In anatomy. Nor have WE.. Although Our Apendix's are decreasing in size with each generation, due to our diets, and increase in Junk food intakes.

I myself do not believe in either evolution or evolveing.

Personally I think that yes evolution could be happening. Slowly but surely it shall take it's coarse.

i drink as much as i can i never have a problem with it

iv never realy had a problem digestion , i can go at least a long while befor feeding sometimes years if i have 2

my appendix didnt get smaller - it just got bigger, then exploded.

I watched a program on genetics and was surprised to find a gene, in western people makes us able to drink more booz due to the way we made beer to drink and other civilization like china for example drank tea and they don’t have the drink gene so get drunk a lot quicker… im guessing vamp activities will change us and over a shorter time span from what I understood from this program.

evolution is a concept that will for all eternity be questioned like the question who came first the chicken or the egg