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Homo Futurus
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 RE: Homo Futurus
July 6, 2013 at 8:06 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2013 at 8:12 pm by pineapplebunnybounce.)
(July 6, 2013 at 5:06 pm)plaincents822 Wrote:(July 6, 2013 at 5:04 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: How is that dystopian comedy movie called where a man travels to the future and finds everyone to be stupid as a result of the stupid reproducing more often? Second that. But i think it's cultures that are complacent towards stupidity that creates stupid people, not really genetics. A lot of people I know are nothing like their parents. Like, for example, I do a lot of tutoring part time, and the fees are not cheap, so i assume the parents paying for it are fairly successful members of society, and ... their kids do not resemble them. 
I wasn't sure what this thread was going to be about.
Sounded like the WBC's worst nightmare, though.  (July 6, 2013 at 4:09 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: But natural selection is so weak now thanks to modern medicine. And not all who are previously considered "fit" (having the potential for having more offsprings than others) are really procreating. In fact, a lot of procreation happens with people who don't bother using birth control. It's very hard to predict in what direction natural selection is selecting, and what the future humans will look like. Also nowadays, brain quality isn't a requirement to procreation, because the big brains create solutions that are then available to everyone. And modern medicine can keep a lot of people alive, despite their predisposition to disease. You would think so, but apparently not. Quote:They found that the more the population grew, the faster human genes evolved. That's because more people created more opportunities for a beneficial mutation to arise, Hawks said. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/11/...ion11dec11 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...697808.htm You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. |
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