since, that the 'survival of the fittest' is no longer taking an effect.
How do you figure? Most of the world doesn't get enough to eat, or have adequate housing. For instance, the life expectancy of a person living in most of Africa is under 55 years. Sounds like negative selection is very much in play for the human population.
And that doesn't even get into sexual selection, which you can't get rid of. You know, unless all human beings learn to reproduce asexually.
Natural selection is very much still at work on the human species. Even in this country
Wait a second. Due to organized civilization, evolution in human beings can't happen anyway. Evolution is about new species winning in competetion with old species. Do you think that in cities, where people have little to no threat of being killed, starved, or preyed on, people can evolve? If Steve's nephew is stronger, and faster than Steve, does that mean that Steve won't get to eat as much at Thanksgiving and will die? No! If someone is fat and slow in our country, they can still get a big juicy steak at the store as easy as a big strong person. Physical developement does not play a part in Human Survival! Even if a fat person has a heart attack, he can be saved by the red cross and live to have children who will also be fat. So now I would say that even if there was evolution, it would be going backwards due to society. In a few decades everyone could be fat! Physical developement just simply isn't an advantage for humans. And according to the theory of evolution, useless characteristics of creatures would be evolved away after a while, so in a few thousand years, according to evolution, everyone just might be fat after all! I can't wait! Everyone will say, "hey chubby!", or, "Good Morning , Fatsoe!"
Seriously, modern society would cause evolution to move backwards, and that's because physical development would not be an advantage anymore.
This message has been edited by LDSdude, 01-20-2005 21:04 AM
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