Re: I think I'm going to puke

you're wrong again as usual.  Evolutionary survival is NOT determined
by numbers of offspring.  Evolutionary surivival is determined by an
organisms ability to adapt to a changing environment.  The people who

No, it isn't. Not even close.

Evolutionary "fitness" is defined as survival rate of offspring.

can adapt to a collapse of civilization will survive to pass their
superior adaptive skills on to their offspring.  That is how natural
selection works.  The key is adaptability.  Figures you don't
understand that.

You simply do not understand how selective pressure works. Dominant
organisms are those who have the highest survival rate of offspring.
It has nothing to do with adaptability of "skills" or other learned
behaviors.

If the smartest most adaptable person on earth has zero children, he
will not dominate. Humans can very EASILY survive a collapse of
civilization; our survival as a species is not in question. Even in
the face of the black plague it was not an issue.

Hal, there is simply NO possible outcome in which you are dominant
over anyone, ok? Just give that fantasy up.

Trav
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