Re: New Earth Humans


"Pete Morris" <nospam.ple@se> wrote in message
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"L. Ross Raszewski" <lraszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:07:35 -0400, Monsieur Tabernac

I don't think that a modern technological civilzation "arrests"
changes in species -- though a lot of people do get that impression.
They just have different standards of what makes a change successful.

Technology may reverse the driving force of evolution: "survival of the
fittest." With technology, the less fit survive to pass on their genes to
the
next generation. The human race will devolve as bad characteristics become
more and more common. In the end our descendents will be blobs that
depend on very complex medicine and machines to keep them alive.

do you disagree? I'll meet you here in 5 billion years and we'll see
who's right.

I'd suggest that technology has 2 effects:

1) People with "bad" genes who may have died before having children can now
live to pass on their genes (hence the rise in things like diabetes)

2) Instead of forcing us to evolve to suit our environment, we change the
environment to suit us

What this means for the future... well with the possibility of genetic
modification, who knows?


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